"Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field."

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Source : John Gregory Dunne (2007). “Nothing Lost”, p.29, Vintage

John Gregory Dunne

#Stupid Quotes #People Quotes #Trying Quotes

“America's veterans deserve the very best health care because they've earned it.”
“It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration.”
“I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily.”
“Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities.”
“A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.”

Source : Song: For All We Know
“Germany has always stood for an E.U. of the 27 countries. But in light of Britain's continued resistance to further integration steps, as we saw with the fiscal pact, there are limits to my optimism in this regard. It's quite possible that we will have to create the new institutions for the euro zone first.”
“I love the fact that fashion always changes, and I hate the fact that it always changes.”
“I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this-never neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening. It may be-usually is, in fact-a false alarm that leads to nothing, but may on the other hand be the clue provided by fate to lead you to some important advance.”

Source : "Molecular cloning: a laboratory manual". Book by Joseph Sambrook, Vol. 1, 153, 2001.

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