"[On General William Boykin] I hope he's not long for this world."

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Source : "NPR Journalists: Pundits or Reporters? Time to Choose" by Jeffrey A. Dvorkin, www.npr.org. October 29, 2003.

Nina Totenberg

#Long Quotes #World Quotes #This World Quotes

“I was certainly not inclined to decriminalise. However, during my time in the unit, as I saw more and more evidence of 'what works', to quote New Labour's mantra of the time, it became apparent to me that ... enforcement and supply-side interventions were largely pointless. They have no significant, lasting impact on the availability, affordability or use of drugs.”
“We're fighting three wars now. Imagine how many we'd be fighting if President Obama hadn't won the Nobel Peace Prize.”
“[Sex] is something big and cosmic. What else do we have? There's only birth and death and the union of two people - and sex is the only one that happens to us more than once.”
“So this is why I can't agree with "don't feed the trolls." When millionaire celebrity broadcasters and entire publications start trolling, ignoring them isn't really an option anymore. They are gradually making trolling normative. We have to start feeding the trolls: feeding them with achingly polite emails and comments, reminding them of how billions of people prefer to communicate with each other, every day, in the most unregulated arena of all: courteously.”
“A strong marriage requires two people who choose to love each other even on those days when they struggle to like each other.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dave Willis from Apr 21, 2017
“He who improvises can never make a perfect line of poetry.”
“Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves.”

Source : Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “On the revolutions”
“When you focus on the eternal, victorious Son of God, you break the devil's heart and render him powerless.”

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