"The way to virtually eliminate genocide and mass murder appears to be through restricting and checking power. This means to foster democratic freedom."

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Source : "Death by Government". Book by Rudolph Rummel, p. 27, 1994.

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“Then, there's the modern mother-in-law. In her mid 40s, she is the compact car of her breed: efficient, trim, attractive and in harmony with her times. She's pretty stiff competition for the plain young matron who's overweight and under-financed. If there is going to be friction in this relationship, it could start from envy and resentment in the younger woman. But Father Time is on her side, even if Mother Nature played her a dirty trick”
“I am always wandering around in enigmas. There are young people who constantly come to tell me: you, too, are making Op Art. I haven't the slightest idea what that is, Op Art. I've been doing this work for thirty years now.”
“Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery.”
“An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion.”
“The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.”
“Hitters are too big, too strong, and their bats are too quick. I have to go inside to have success.”
“Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe.”
“Beauty means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. A lot of different ways in which things can be beautiful. But this really has a very specific meaning and which is more along the lines of elegance which is that we say an idea is beautiful or elegant in mathematics or physics if a very simple principle or a very simple idea, or simple set of ideas, turns out to be very powerful and leads to all sort of unexpected structure and unexpected predictions.”

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