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“The problem is compounded by the fact that the connection between cause and effect seems so improbable. By turning on the lights, filling the kettle, taking the children to school, driving to the shops, we are condemning other people to death. We never chose to do this. We do not see ourselves as killers. We perform these acts without passion or intent.”
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“It could be coincidence. It's an extraordinarily short turnaround it's impossible to say at this point.”
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“I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.”
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“There are some forms of stupidity that one must be highly intelligent and educated to achieve.”
Source : J. Budziszewski (2010). “The Revenge of Conscience: Politics and the Fall of Man”, p.14, Wipf and Stock Publishers
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“I was about 17 or 18 when I first started performing in public. I had a teacher when I was a freshman in college and she came up to me afterwards and said she had been crying while I had been singing, and it really shocked me.”
Source : "Charles Blow on Masculinity, Trayvon Martin, and Reliving Childhood Trauma". Interview with Julia Lurie, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2014.
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“Now that [Reagan's] place in history is secure, [liberals] are trying to remake him. A pernicious myth is that Reagan and Tip O'Neill were great friends.”
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“Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.”
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“Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.”