"If the Bill of Rights was intended to place strict limits on federal power and protect individual and locality from the national government the 14th Amendment effectively defeated that purpose by placing the power to enforce the Bill of Rights in federal hands, where it was never intended to be."

-- Ilana Mercer

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“John Lott has done the most extensive, thorough and sophisticated study we have on the effects of loosening gun control laws.”
“Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on false pretenses, Bush connected with Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 because he looked as frail and unforgiving as we felt.”
“Next to God, love is the word most mangled in every language. The highest form of regard between two people is friendship, and when love enters, friendship dies.”
“If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.”
“There are things that are not spoken about in polite society. Very quickly in most conversations you'll reach a moment where someone goes, 'Oh, that's a bit heavy,' or 'Eew, disgusting.' And literature is a place where that stuff goes; where people whisper to each other across books, the writer to the reader. I think that stops you feeling lonely â€“ in the deeper sense, lonely.”

Source : The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. November/December 2012.
“Eat what you want to eat, but just be willing to pay the price. If you know you want to eat more cake or more cookies, be willing to work out a lil bit more. I think that's the problem people have is you want to eat bad, but yet you don't want to pay the price to work it off.”
“That's one part of oppression is to make sure you are a shameful, shamed human being. That takes care of the past.”
“I advocate as a futurist and also as a member of the Transhumanist Party, that we never let artificial intelligence completely go on its own. I just don't see why the human species needs an artificial entity, an artificial intelligence entity, that's 10,000 times smarter than us. I just don't see why that could ever be a good thing.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com

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