"In dealing with Syria's dictator...only force counts. No cease-fire was attainable in Lebanon until the 16-inch guns of the battleship New Jersey started shelling Syria's proxies; suddenly, sweet reason prevailed in Damascus."

-- William Safire

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“People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul - satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.”
“From one scumbag to another...”
“I just live in the truth and think that every moment counts.”
“You could make a good case that the history of social life is about the history of the technology of memory. That social order and control, structure of governance, social cohesion in states or organizations larger than face-to- face society depends on the nature of the technology of memory-both how it works and what it remembers In short, what societies value is what they memorize, and how they memorize it, and who has access to its memorized form determines the structure of power that the society represents and acts from.”

Source : "Why Free Beer Isn’t So Good if your Data are Getting Drunk: How Free as in Freedom Businesses Help Prevent the Ultimate Privacy Catastrophe". MySQL Conference, www.softwarefreedom.org. 2007.
“I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.”
“I'm a big fan of simplicity, especially with songs and I try not to make them complicated. I just make them simple and let people absorb that message themselves. That's my theory.”

Source : "Air Supply’s Graham Russell on Lost in Love , the Musical". Interview with Jeryl Brunner, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2012.
“There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.”
“If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed.”

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