"I donâ€™t think there is any mystery to understanding the passionate feelings people have for guns. Nobody really believes itâ€™s about maintaining a militia. Itâ€™s about having possession of a tool that makes a person feel powerful nearly to the point of exaltation."

-- Alec Wilkinson

#Powerful Quotes #Believe Quotes #Gun Quotes

“She took a bad tumble. Those are some nasty bruises she's carrying," the maid said with a sad shake of the head. "Aye," Cullen agreed, his eyes traveling over lovely, milky white skin, interrupted by several black bruises. "She looks like a cow." Mildrede turned a horrified gaze on him at the comment, but he was more concerned by the choked sound that came from his bride. He really hadn't meant it as an insult, but it seemed the women were taking it so. "I just meant the coloring," Cullen muttered”
“The biggest secret of focused people is that they don't think about focus.”
“I don't understand racism. I have many black friends and many others have been my opponents. Respect is basic. Unfortunately racism is a social problem, and football belongs to society.”

Source : Source: 90soccer.com
“Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays.”
“You will get no where if you do not inspire people.”
“The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them.”
“I want to institutionalise and automate chequebook journalism.”

Source : "The Brit dishing the dirt on America" by Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2008.
“The great ideas of the West - rationalism, self-criticism, the disinterested search for truth, the separation of church and state, the rule of law, equality before the law, freedom of conscience, thought, and expression, human rights, and liberal democracy- quite an achievement, surely, for any civilization- - remain the best, and perhaps the only, means for all people, no matter of what race or creed, to reach their full potential and live in freedom.”

Source : Ibn Warraq (2010). “Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays”

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