"The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law."

-- Harold Pinter

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“I never want to be told, "Hey, this is what you do best, and this is the only thing you're going to do." And there are other people that are put into that box. Or unable to navigate through all the different genres. Some people insist on being a tough guy even though it's not happening. People only want to see them in leading romantic roles. Yet they continue to try and force something that doesn't feel organic to people.”
“Like italics and hyphens, quotation marks are to be used as sparingly as possible. They should light the way, not darken it.”

Source : Eric Partridge (2003). “You Have a Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and Its Allies”, p.125, Routledge
“Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.”
“Here you had John McCain and Lindsey Graham in a very principled way standing up and defending Barack Obama. You had people like Gene Robinson and a lot of other liberals, who said, and this I personally agree with, however flawed Rand Paul was as a messenger, we need a debate about this. The administration has not been forthcoming enough about its drone policy.”

Source : "Week In Politics: Unemployment, Rand Paul's Filibuster". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. March 8, 2013.
“If you wanna make a friend, solve a problem for them. No problem to solve? Create one.”
“Inner peace is not found in things like baseball and world championships. As long as I feel I've done the best job I possibly could, I'm satisfied.”
“A campaign is about defining who you are - your vision and your opponent's vision.”
“Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.”

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