"The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution."

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Source : "Special Report's Contrasting Previews Of The King And Durbin Hearings On American Muslims" by Brian Powell, www.mediamatters.org. March 29, 2011.

Denis McDonough

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“It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward.”
“The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.”
“The more wit we have, the less satisfied we are with it.”
“What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity.”
“There were the events of 1968 when young people began to ask their parents, what did you do in the war? And since the middle- or late-'70s, the French have been absolutely obsessed with the Vichy regime. They have an institute of contemporary history that turns out first-rate scholarly work. Their textbooks are accurate. Whether the students actually read them is another matter.”
“There's no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence.”
“The rule of thumb is that if someone is able to be verbally or physically abusive, he or she is able to understand that the behavior is wrong.”

Source : Edward T. Welch (1998). “Blame It on the Brain?: Distinguishing Chemical Imbalances, Brain Disorders, and Disobedience”, Presbyterian & Reformed Publishing Company
“We all have secrets we keep locked away from the rest of the world. Friendship we pretend. Relationships we hide. But worst of all is the love we never let show; the most dangerous secret a person can bury are those we keep for ourselves.”

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