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• The threat [of the U.S. bills SOPA and PIPA] is the inversion of the burden of proof, where we suddenly are all treated like thieves at every moment we're given the freedom to create, to produce or to share.

  Clay Shirky

  Burden Of Proof, Bills, Thieves

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• The word suffering is full and whole and perfect as a pierced heart, sweet, rushing and tender ... Suffering is the joy of someone about to be martyred, illumination of something given up as an offer.

  Lydia Millet

  Sweet, Grief, Heart

  Lydia Millet (2005). “Oh Pure and Radiant Heart”, p.206, Soft Skull Press

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• Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into another's woe. Sorrow's the great community in which all men born of woman are members at one time or another.

  Sean O'Casey

  Jesus, Men, Community

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• How many more copycats are waiting in the wings for their moment of fame — from a national media machine that rewards them with the wall-to-wall attention and sense of identity that they crave — while provoking others to try to make their mark? A dozen more killers? A hundred? More? How can we possibly even guess how many, given our nation's refusal to create an active national database of the mentally ill?

  Wayne LaPierre

  Wall, Media, Wings

  National Rifle Association Press Conference Announcing "National School Shield" Program Following the Newton, Connecticut Shootings, delivered 21 December 2012

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• I've always been drawn to and fascinated by physical and psychological change.
  If I'm able to make pictures of children that are so real, as you follow the children over the years in any given book, and in subsequent books they get older and older and grow up, perhaps there might be something cautionary in that visual example.
  Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.

  Jock Sturges

  Children, Growing Up, Real

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• I think in Singapore, we stand a chance of making the one-man-one-vote system work. With amendments as we have done, you know, like GRCs.. We need to make it work. And I believe with pragmatic adjustments, given these favourable conditions, we can have more open debate.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• Characters can be mysterious and you're not really sure which way they might turn at a given point.

  Michael Zaslow

  Character, Way, Might

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• If you wish to enjoy a position, find ways of being useful, hard working and cooperative with the people whose favour has given you the position

  Shri Radhe Maa

  Hard Work, People, Wish

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• Turmoil is a call for awakening. Every challenge, great or small, is moving you to look deeper and draw forth the highest in you. You're never given a challenge beyond your ability to meet and master. You'll rise above every circumstance because you're greater than any circumstance.

  Alan Cohen

  Moving, Challenges, Looks

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• The thing that pleases me the most about it is that young people like it. It's given kids from 6 to 16 an alternate view of music to what's been available for the past 20 years.

  George Harrison

  Kids, Past, Views

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• Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering. Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.

  Ajahn Chah

  Running, Teacher, Suffering

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• Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I'd prefer steel pins.

  Mike Leigh

  Eye, Choices, Hollywood

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's easy to love the snow because at the end of every snowstorm it's as if the world has started over. There is no dirt, no footprints, just a layer of seamless, indiscriminate nature connecting everything to everything else. Isn't that the amazing thing about the natural world? You can tear it down, you can drill holes in it, you can ignore its power with all your might, but one morning you wake up and it has selflessly given despite all of our abuse. I think I'll make a snowman.

  Andrew McMahon

  Morning, Thinking, Snow

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• Given currency by Jrgen Habermas in the late l980s, 'constitutional patriotism' has emerged as an appealing principle for post-national political allegiance. Jan-Werner Mller traces the long postwar history of the concept, takes honest account of the conservative critiques it has provoked, but proposes that it can serve as a robust norm for European Union citizenship. This is a profound meditation with real importance for contemporary political society.

  Charles S. Maier

  Real, Long, Profound

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• I have been, all my life, what is known as a conservationist. It seems clear beyond possibility of argument that any given generation of men can have only a lease, not ownership, of the earth; and one essential term of the lease is that the earth be handed down on to the next generation with unimpaired potentialities. This is the conservationist's concern.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Men, Essentials, Generations

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• The desire to build a risk-free society has always been a sign of decadence. It has meant that the nation has given up, that it no longer believes in its destiny, that it has ceased to aspire to greatness, and has retired from history to pet itself.

  Henry Fairlie

  Believe, Greatness, Destiny

  "Paralysis in a Risk-Free Society" by Henry Fairlie, www.washingtonpost.com. July 22, 1979.

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• I do not think that there is any general statement in the Bible or any part of the account of creation, either as given in Genesis 1 and 2 or elsewhere alluded to, that need be opposed to evolution.

  B. B. Warfield

  Thinking, Needs, Evolution

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• Personality is that which is most intimate to me—that by which I must act out my life. It is that by which I belong to man, that by which I amable to reach after God; and He has given to me this pearl of great  price. It is an immortal treasure; it is mine, it is His, and no man shall pluck it out of His hand.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Men, Hands, Personality

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.307

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• When you have shot and killed a man you have in some measure clarified your attitude toward him. You have given a definite answer to a definite problem. For better or worse you have acted decisively. In a way, the next move is up to him.

  R. A. Lafferty

  Attitude, Humorous, Moving

  "Golden Gate and Other Stories". Book by R. A. Lafferty, 1982.

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• If you should prefer to understand that children are those human beings who have not yet found the grasp of their own minds, then the task you have given yourself, that task of rearing a child wisely and well, is suddenly transformed from indoctrination to education, in its truest sense, and made not only possible but even likely--provided, to be sure, one little prerequisite, which is that you are not a child, that you have come into the grasp of your mind.

  Richard Mitchell

  Children, Mind, Tasks

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• But for all those who don't want the Queen there are easily as many who don't want a President and even more who certainly would not want one if they knew who it would be. As you can readily see, I have given more thought to this subject than most and I have reached my own conclusion. God save the Queen.

  Dalton Camp

  Queens, President, Would Be

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• About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.

  Sidney Altman

  Book, Years, Saws

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• The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given.

  Jan Peter Balkenende

  War, Europe, Achievement

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• One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Doe, Language

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