"The journalist's job is to get the story by breaking into their offices, by bribing, by seducing people, by lying, by anything else to break through the palace guard."

-- Robert Scheer

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“Here's a summary for the time or attention challenged: Never surrender freedom for laws that can't affect criminals; they disobey laws for a living.”

Source : "U.S. freedoms not to blame for Mexico's drug war" by Wayne LaPierre, www.cnn.com. March 26, 2009.
“We live in the age of Noah (a.s.) in the sense that a flood of distraction accosts us. It is a slow and subtle drowning. For those who notice it, they engage in the remembrance of God. The rites of worship and devotion to God's remembrance (dhikr) are planks of the ark. When Noah (a.s.) started to build his ark, his people mocked him and considered him a fool. But he kept building. He knew what was coming. And we know too.”
“I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.”
“You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten.”
“I value all things as nothing in comparison with having the spirit of God to guide me.”
“That's always been my main anxiety - the people in the room. That's my massive stress - thinking that these people in the room are judging me. And, this time around, I've been able to think a little bit more clearly about that. I've been able to think "Well, no. They're here to enjoy a show," and I want to give them that. I want to give them their money's worth â€“ for starters.”

Source : Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.
“We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.”
“I received the best advice for running I ever heard: 'You're not going to win, so just relax. If it feels like work, you're running too hard.”

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