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“This strongly asserted but ill-defined license to kill without accountability is not an entitlement which the United States or other states can have without doing grave damage to the rules designed to protect the right to life and prevent extrajudicial executions.”
Source : "U.N. report faults prolific use of drone strikes by U.S." by David S. Cloud, articles.latimes.com. June 3, 2010. 
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“Why do we love the idea that people might be secretly working together to control and organise the world? Because we don't like to face the fact that our world runs on a combination of chaos, incompetence and confusion.”
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“The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.”
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“When you read the Koran, you give up. At least the Bible is very beautiful because Jews have an extraordinary literary talent.”
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“Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world.”
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“Popular, You're gonna be Popular! I'll teach you the proper ploys when you talk to boys! Little ways to flirt and flounce! I'll show you what shoes to wear, how to fix your hair, everything that really counts, to be POPULAR!!”
Source : David Coté, Joan Marcus, Stephen Schwartz (2005). “Wicked: the Grimmerie”, Hyperion Books
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“If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would learn as thoroughly and understand the subtleties of all the arts and sciences as well as sons. And by chance there happen to be such women, for, as I touched on before, just as women have more delicate bodies than men, weaker and less able to perform many tasks, so do they have minds that are freer and sharper whenever they apply themselves.”
Source : "The Book of the City of Ladies". Book by Christine de Pizan, transl. by Earl Jeffrey Richards, Part I, ch. 27, p. 63, 1983.
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“I've always been a foodie. My grandmother got me hooked on cooking.”
