"Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors."

-- Ernest Hemingway

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“I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days.”
“I think every parent knows that, like, boys and girls are different. And we just dont take that into account in schools on those things like required reading lists. Cause that was my experience, say, with my son, who had to read Little House on the Prairie when he was in third grade.”
“I stay ready so I don't have to get ready.”
“Syria is lucky to have Bashar al-Assad as her President.”

Source : "George Galloway Is Gruesome, Not Gorgeous" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. September 13, 2005.
“Are we to have a church in which everyone's judgment is equal to everyone else's? That's not a church, it's chaos. Common sense dictates that you keep the fox out of the chicken coop.”
“O beautiful white land, olives and wild anemone and violet mingled among the shale, and purple wings of little winter-butterflies say, here Psyche, the soul, lies.”

Source : Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.332, New Directions Publishing
“Over a period of 11 months I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a frightening and traumatic experience. So often these terrible memories come to me. I can't ignore them.”

Source : "Laura Dekker: a heroine for our times" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2012.
“Most people believe that inequality is rising - and indeed it has been rising for a while in a number of rich countries. And there is lots of talk and realization of this. It's harder to understand that at the same time, you can actually have global inequality going down. Technically speaking, national inequality can increase in every single country and yet global inequality can go down. And why it is going down is because very large, populous, and relatively poor countries like India and China are growing quite fast.”

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