"The pose of innocence is as mandatory as the ability to eat banquet food and endure the scourging of the press."

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Lewis H. Lapham

#Innocence Quotes #Banquets Quotes #Endure Quotes

“My take on the torture thing and even drones is: If we're going to get into assassination and torture, the second question is the morality, but the first is the effectiveness of it.”

Source : "Torture, Drones, and Hollywood: A Former CIA Operative Talks". Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. December 23, 2014.
“I had learned that every patient has the right to hope, despite long odds, and it was my role to help nurture that hope.”

Source : Jerome Groopman (2003). “The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness”, p.60, Random House
“I don't respect killers, I respect O.G. knowledge, Codes of the streets got new rules, but no guidance. Lessons, detrimental to a young disciple; Folks, take care of your brothers, ***** do as I do. Keep your enemies close, where they can see you. It's not your enemy who get you, it's always your own people.”
“It is vital that we provide North Dakota's children with nutritionally sound diets. That means ensuring that they are getting plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, and are developing good eating habits for their future.”
“In the Spirit which draws us into honest engagement with one another, including those who may be very different from us in various ways, God calls us to wake up and learn how to love and respect one another, period.”
“Good things come to obsessive compulsives who fixate.”
“Reservation should be under 'Bartlett.' Right, that's two T's. Yes. 'Bart-let-et.'”
“The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.”

Source : Charles Babbage (1841). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.4

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