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“You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly esteemed, but by how it treats the poor, the disfavored and the disadvantaged....”
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“While wrestling in college as a junior it came to a point where wrestling just wasn't enough for me anymore. I love wrestling, but I felt like I was missing something, and so the striking part about MMA, the boxing and kickboxing, was what got me really interested in MMA. I saw it on TV and I just knew that I wanted to do it.”
Source : Interview with Johnny Testa, www.askmen.com.
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“...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who worry what you think of them. You can really only punish people who are already a little bit good.”
Source : Lionel Shriver (2010). “We Need To Talk About Kevin”, p.167, Profile Books
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“It's frightening that skepticism has to be a movement, because you're just arguing that reality is reality. What a waste of energy, in a way”
Source : "The TAM London 2010 live blog" by Martin Robbins, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2010.
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“The day I leave, you won't know how to pronounce my name. You could care less about me, and I should be dead and buried because there's not one media that will come and remember who Joe Arpaio is. That's the way it is in politics.”
Source : "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. June 20, 2016.
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“The heavens are not filled with hostility. The sky does not express a frown. When I look up I do not contemplate a face of brass, but the face of infinite good will. Yet when I was a child, many a picture has made me think of God as suspicious, inhumanly watchful, always looking round the corner to catch me at the fall. That "eye," placed in the sky of many a picture, and placed there to represent God, filled my heart with chilling fear. . . . Heaven overflows with good will toward us! Our God not only wishes good, he wills it!”
Source : John Henry Jowett (0101). “My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year”, p.363, Prabhat Prakashan
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“we're all bozos on the bus, so might as well sit back and enjoy the ride.”
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“Art Tatum -- he was a genius. And Einstein, not me.”