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Bob Costas

"Our current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience-store confrontations over loud music coming from a car will leave more teenage boys bloodied and dead.... What I believe is, if (Belcher) didnâ€™t possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.... Handguns do not enhance our safety. They exacerbate our flaws, tempt us to escalate arguments, and bait us into embracing confrontation rather than avoiding it."

Source : "In KC, it’s no time for a game". www.foxsports.com. December 1, 2012.

Bob Costas

#Teenage Quotes #Believe Quotes #Gun Quotes

“Come with me if you want to live!”
“A young boy shouldn't be given up for hopeless just because he's lazy, surly, and good for nothing. Don't be discouraged by those things - maybe he's just trying to be like his daddy.”
“I've grown up a lot, and I've realized that what I need to make myself happy is the people around you.”
“The Occupy Wall Street collective is confused about what it wants but it wants it now! Some of the loonier demands from its independent thinkers: Striking all existing public and private debt from the books across the "entire planet"; elimination of all international borders; free college education; a guaranteed "living wage" for all regardless of employment; an end to free trade; trillions in additional spending for infrastructure and ecological restoration; and ending the fossil fuel economy.”
“My paintings are titled after they are finished. I paint from remembered landscapes that I carry with me - and remembered feelings of them, which of course become transformed. I could certainly never mirror nature. I would more like to paint what it leaves with me.”
“Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured; bears, indeed, about the same relation to it that a monkey bears to a man; yet, with many, contempt of fanaticism is received as a sure sign of hostility to religion.”

Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.68
“the most important quality of an inept person is to rely on popular belief and hearsay.”
“Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.”

Source : "Mind, Self, and Society". Book by George Herbert Mead, 1934.

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