"Those of us who have seen violent death up close, who have seen what high-powered bullets can do to living human tissue, have a horror of inflicting that nightmarish, never forgotten damage on a fellow human being. Perhaps the only more terrifying prospect is that such a fate should befall us or our loved ones. This is why we, a representative cross-section of America's population, keep deadly weapons for personal defense."

-- Massad Ayoob

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“No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.”

Source : Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”
“I just wanted to fit in, so probably early on I knew, but it was... social life was such a distant part of my existence when I was in school that I didn't even think about it too much.”

Source : Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.
“However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.”
“Thatâ€™s whatâ€™s so gorgeous about humanity. It doesnâ€™t matter how bleak our daily lives are, we still fight for the light. I think thatâ€™s our divinity. We lean into love, even in the most hideous circumstances. We manage to hope.”
“I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.”
“If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.”
“I went to so many record labels - name any one - and they all turned me down. For some reason I just got the thumbs down for years and years. It sounds like I'm making that up, but it's true. I'm too serious about music and my creations to take just any kind of deal. There were a couple of companies that wanted to put me with a producer, and I said, "Well, I just produced my last album," and I wasn't about to go backwards.”
“Mostly what happens in the novels never happened in real life.”

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