"It's quite fun to fight them, you know. It's a hell of a hoot. It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right up front with you, I like brawling."

-- James Mattis

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“For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache.”

Source : Iain Pears (2003). “Dream of Scipio”, p.147, Penguin
“The people have a right to keep and bear arms.”
“Monsters exist because we create them, through war and violence, and distortion, and the way we handle people and so on.”
“All good men wish the entire abolition of slavery, as soon as it can take place with safety to the public, and for the lasting good of the present wretched race of slaves. The only possible step that could be taken towards it by the convention was to fix a period after which they should not be imported.”
“If you look at photographers who say, "I hate digital photography," they all use Photoshop, even if it's to make the sky just a little more blue than it was. Manipulation is very discrete and because it's so discrete nobody cares about it anymore. People accept manipulated photographs, I think.”
“I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.”

Source : "Not afraid of the dark" by Chrissy Iley, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2007.
“It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.”
“For he loved her and he understood that a woman cannot always live as a man. He understood that she cannot always think as he thought, walk as he walked, breathe the air that he took in. She would always be a different being from him, listening to a different music, hearing a different sound, familiar with a different element.”

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