"The WHO took care to explicitly say that processed meat didnâ€™t rank alongside smoking when it comes to cancer risk."

-- Kevin Drum

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“The Bobbit case, which brought to life the ancient mythic archetype of woman as castrator, demonstrated that women are as aggressive as men and that sex is a dark, dangerous force of nature. But of course the feminist establishment, stuck in its battered-woman blinders, learned nothing as usual from this lurid refutation of its normal views. Classic art works like Bizet's Carmen tell us more about the irrationality of love, jealousy and revenge than do all the pat formulas of the counseling industry.”
“What is the use of fighting for the vote if we do not have a country to vote in? With that patriotism that has nerved women to endure torture in prison for the national good, we ardently desire that our country shall be victorious.”
“Nuh-uh. No deals with the devil. Iâ€™ve learned my lesson on that one. ~Jaime Vegas”
“The only medal that I am certain I deserved is the Purple Heart.”

Source : Interview with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com.
“Most actors hate readthroughs - they're exposing themselves before they're ready to, and before they've bonded. But I love them because they give us all the first inkling of what the whole show is going to be like, how each part affects every other part, and we won't see that again until it's all edited together.”

Source : "How to turn Dickens into a serial thriller" by Andrew Davies, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2008.
“The reality is (Clinton's) so-called tax cut is basically giving money to people who largely don't pay taxes, so that it's really spending rather than a tax cut, ... This Week.”
“In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking.”

Source : Charles Babbage (1832). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.26
“Prayer is essentially a process by which ideals are enabled to become operative in our lives. It may be more than this, but it is at least this.”

Source : Georgia Elma Harkness (1937). “The Recovery of Ideals”

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