"I looked around the store and what I saw was not very encouraging. There were rows and rows of violent toys...aisle after aisle of training devices for recreational slaughter. No wonder our world was such a mean and violent place...if we teach children that killing is fun, can we really be surprised if now and then someone is smart enough to learn?"

-- Jeff Lindsay

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“From 1975 to 1979 - through execution, starvation, disease, and forced labor - the Khmer Rouge systematically killed an estimated two million Cambodians, almost a fourth of the country's population.”

Source : Loung Ung (2010). “First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers”, p.5, Harper Collins
“Demeanor-wise, Reagan was a conservative, but a pragmatic conservative, and he found silver linings in things. He liked to be a mediator. He didn't like to have enemies around him.”

Source : "Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 24, 2011.
“Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy.”
“So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.”
“They memorize everything and learn... nothing.”
“By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion”
“If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.”
“Cat lovers can readily be identified. Their clothes always look old and well used. Their sheets look like bath towels, and their bath towels look like a collection of knitting mistakes.”

Source : Eric Gurney (2016). “How to Live With A Calculating Cat”, p.95, Pickle Partners Publishing

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