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• Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.

  Jackson Katz

  School, News, Shooting

  "Memo to Media: Manhood, Not Guns or Mental Illness, Should Be Central in Newtown Shooting" by Jackson Katz, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 18, 2012.

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• It all stems from the same thing - which is that when we are face to face - and this is what I think is so ironic about Facebook being called Facebook, because we are not face to face on Facebook ... when we are face to face, we are inhibited by the presence of the other. We are inhibited from aggression by the presence of another face, another person. We're aware that we're with a human being. On the Internet, we are disinhibited from taking into full account that we are in the presence of another human being.

  Sherry Turkle

  Thinking, Ironic, Faces

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• Why do I have an issue with banks? They have their greedy fingers in everyones money. No other industry has the power to deduct a bill or fees directly from your own bank account without so much as a notice.

  Jonathan Raymond

  Issues, Bills, Greedy

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• A timely and incisive look into the history, politics, and future of the Muslim Brotherhood by the foremost expert on Islamism in Egypt. Carrie Rosefsky Wickham has constructed a detailed account of how the Brotherhood confronts the challenges before it, and why and when it embraces change. Everyone concerned with the future of Egypt should read this book.

  Vali Nasr

  Book, Egypt, Challenges

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• Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fall, Eye, Angel

  Terry Pratchett (2014). “A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction”, p.150, Random House

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• Note that both of these papers [the New York Post and the New York Daily News] are big sellers in a city whose residents like to go around saying they'd never live anyplace else on account of they'd miss the opera.

  Dave Barry

  New York, Cities, Missing

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• These left-overs from the former Young Turk Party, who should have been made to account for the millions of our Christian subjects who were ruthlessly driven en masse, from their homes and massacred, have been restive under the Republican rule.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Christian, Party, Home

  Interview in "The Los Angeles Examiner", August 1, 1926.

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• So, there's quite a big keep-out zone, and when you factor the keep-out zone into account, the solar panels put on that area would typically generate more power than that nuclear power plant.

  Elon Musk

  Energy, Nuclear, Plant

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• The Church demonstrated the falsity and folly of Darwin's theories by showing that they contradicted the Mosaic account of creation, and now that the theories of Darwin having been fairly established, the Church says that the Mosaic account is true because it is in harmony with Darwin. Now, if it should turn out that Darwin was mistaken, what then?

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Atheism, Church, Mosaics

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1846, Library of Alexandria

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• A few years ago the Deists denied the inspiration of the Bible on account of its cruelty. At the same time they worshiped what they were pleased to call the God of Nature. Now we are convinced that Nature is as cruel as the Bible; so that, if the God of Nature did not write the Bible, this God at least has caused earthquakes and pestilence and famine, and this God has allowed millions of his children to destroy one another. So that now we have arrived at the question - not as to whether the Bible is inspired and not as to whether Jehovah is the real God, but whether there is a God or not.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, Real, Inspiration

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2794, Library of Alexandria

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• I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a famine!

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Atheism, Pestilence, Imagine

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.282, Library of Alexandria

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• I'll always be best known as Marie Osmond, but in my checking account and at home, I will gladly be Marie Craig.

  Marie Osmond

  Home, Checking Accounts, Marie

  "Marie Osmond Joins a Throng of Wedding Belles and Beaux Who Have Taken the Plunge". people.com. July 5, 1982.

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• This is the blessed life-not anxious to see far in front, nor eager to choose the path, but quietly following behind the Shepherd, one step at a time. The Shepherd was always out in front of the sheep. He was down in front. Any attack upon them had to take him into account. Now God is down in front. He is in the tomorrows. It is tomorrow that fills men with dread. God is there already. All the tomorrows of our life have to pass Him before they can get to us.

  F.B. Meyer

  Blessed, Men, Sheep

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• I know that the history of man is not his technical triumphs, his kills, his victories. It is a composite, a mosaic of a trillion pieces, the account of each man's accommodation with his conscience. This is the true history of the race.

  Jack Vance

  Men, Race, Victory

  Jack Vance (1966). “The Last Castle”, p.37, Spatterlight Press

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• Seeking the Cave is part travelogue, part literary history, and part spiritual journey. James Lenfestey is a lively and entertaining tour guide. Modest, funny, curious, and wide open to the world, he gives us perceptive glimpses of Chinese culture, ancient to contemporary, and into what it means to be a poet, both now and twelve centuries ago. The account of his quest to find Han Shan's cave is a delight from beginning to end.

  Chase Twichell

  Spiritual, Mean, Journey

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• In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist of two hundred years ago, Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes. Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings, to bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today's globe.

  Adam Hochschild

  Determination, Years, Two

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• Blight has descended on our regulatory agencies - and a dry rot, beginning in Washington, is seeping into every corner of America - in the payola mentality, the expense account way of life, the confusion between what is legal and what is right.

  John F. Kennedy

  Agency, America, Confusion

  Address of Senator John F. Kennedy accepting the Democratic Party Nomination for the Presidency of the United States at Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California, www.jfklibrary.org. July 15, 1960.

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• To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Opportunity, Men, Turns

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• The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of it in all its appliances, we must study it on its own account, independently of any special application.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Special, Use, Study

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• If the biblical account of creation in Genesis isn't true, how can we trust the rest of the Bible?

  Beverly LaHaye

  Biblical, Scary, Creation

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• If you sell me a car, we have perhaps made a good bargain for ourselves. But there are effects of this transaction on others, which we do not take into account. There is more pollution, the price of gas goes up, there is more congestion.

  Noam Chomsky

  Car, Pollution, Made

  "The United States Has Essentially a One-Party System". Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. October 10, 2008.

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• I'm not actually pop culture or social media savvy. I really didn't know what Twitter was when I created an account.

  Misha Collins

  Media, Culture, Social

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Views, Common Sense

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.245, Delphi Classics

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• I do not remember anything which Confucius has said directly respecting man's "origin, purpose, and destiny." He was more practical than that. He is full of wisdom applied to human relations,--to the private life,--the family,--government, etc. It is remarkable that, according to his own account, the sum and substance of his teaching is, as you know, to do as you would be done by.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Teaching, Destiny

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “HENRY DAVID THOREAU – The Man, The Philosopher & The Trailblazer (Illustrated): Biographies, Memoirs, Autobiographical Books & Personal Letters (Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada…)”, p.1352, e-artnow

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• After reading Howitt's account of the Australian gold-diggings one evening,... I asked myself why I might not be washing some golddaily, though it were only the finest particles,--why I might not sink a shaft down to the gold within me, and work that mine.... At any rate, I might pursue some path, however solitary and narrow and crooked, in which I could walk with love and reverence.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Reading, Solitude

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Civil Disobedience and Other Essays”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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