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• Horror grows impatient, rhetorically, with the Stoic fatalism of Ecclesiastes. That we are all going to die, that death mocks and cancels every one of our acts and attainments and every moment of our life histories, this knowledge is to storytelling what rust is to oxidation; the writer of horror holds with those who favor fire. The horror writer is not content to report on death as the universal system of human weather; he or she chases tornadoes. Horror is Stoicism with a taste for spectacle.

  Michael Chabon

  Fire, Weather, Rust

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• The Chinese government launched China's first 24-hour news channel. And since the channel will only report stories that are favorable to the ruling party, they've decided to call it Fox News.

  Conan O'Brien

  Party, Government, Chinese

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• I didnt write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.

  Cynthia Voigt

  Book, Writing, Grades

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• John Kerry fell off of his bicycle over the weekend. He went for a Sunday afternoon ride, fell off in front of the news media. Luckily, his hair broke the fall so it's not as serious. ... Thankfully, Senator Kerry was not seriously injured. In fact, when the police arrived, Kerry was well enough to give conflicting reports to the officers about what happened.

  Jay Leno

  Fall, Sunday, Weekend

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• The United Nations Childrens Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.

  Foster Friess

  Children, War, Parent

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• The Nuffield report suggests that there is a moral imperative for investment into GM crop research in developing countries. But the moral imperative is in fact the opposite.  The policy of drawing of funds away from low-cost sustainable agriculture research, towards hi-tech, exclusive, expensive and unsafe technology is itself ethically questionable.  There is a strong moral argument that the funding of GM technology in agriculture is harming the long-term sustainability of agriculture in the developing world.

  Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher

  Country, Strong, Technology

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• In recent years, there have been reports of people with twisted minds putting razor blades and poison in taffy apples and Halloween candy. It is no longer safe to let your child eat treats that come from strangers.

  Ann Landers

  Children, Halloween, Years

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• The filmmakers aren't running the studios anymore. Sometimes people who like films are making them, but by and large, they have to go report quarterly earnings and all that stuff. The competition is so huge that it's very hard to get people to show up to see any movie in the theater, much less an original one that isn't a version of something else they saw.

  Tom Hanks

  Running, People, Competition

  "Tom Hanks and Halle Berry Talk CLOUD ATLAS, Playing Multiple Roles, Moving Between Directors and Time Periods, Fear of Failure and the Collaborative Process". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 23, 2012.

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• It would be worth the while to select our reading, for books are the society we keep; to read only the serenely true; never statistics, nor fiction, nor news, nor reports, nor periodicals, but only great poems, and when they failed, read them again, or perchance write more. Instead of other sacrifice, we might offer up our perfect (teleia) thoughts to the gods daily, in hymns or psalms. For we should be at the helm at least once a day.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.83, Delphi Classics

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• For corporations to be bedfellows with the arts is good business for both. The architecture that houses a company is a more visible statement than the president's in the annual report. Ditto interiors, particularly of offices and sometimes, dramatically, in plants. For solvent businesses, support of community cultural undertakings in music, drama, dance creates great goodwill. Also, the existence of such activities is often important to the executives and their families that companies want to keep or attract to keep.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Art, Drama, Office

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• I find it profoundly symbolic that I am appearing before a committee of fifteen men who will report to a legislative body of one hundred men because of a decision handed down by a court comprised of nine men--on an issue that affects millions of women.... I have the feeling that if men could get pregnant, we wouldn't be struggling for this legislation. If men could get pregnant, maternity benefits would be as sacrosanct as the G.I. Bill.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Women, Struggle, Issues

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• Even in writing an annual report, the unconscious plays a role.

  Mason Cooley

  Writing, Play, Roles

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• I was alarmed at my doctor's report: He said I was sound as a dollar.

  Ronald Reagan

  Doctors, Government, Sound

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• Conscience: A small, still voice that makes minority reports.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Voice, Minorities, Minority Report

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• Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.

  Stendhal

  Spy, Language, Human Nature

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black: World Classics”, p.204, World Classic

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• statistic: the us bureau of missing persons reports
  that in 1968 over 100,000 people disappeared
  leaving no solid clues
  nor traceonly
  a space
  in the lives of their friends.

  Ishmael Reed

  Space, People, Missing

  Ishmael Reed (1988). “New and collected poems”, Scribner

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• We must hold fast to the austere but true doctrine as to what really governs politics and saves or destroys states. Having in mind things true, things elevated, things just, things pure, things amiable, things of good report; having these in mind, studying and loving these, is what saves states.

  Matthew Arnold

  Truth, Mind, Doctrine

  Matthew Arnold (1912). “Thoughts on Education: Chosen from the Writings of Matthew Arnold”

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• Today, I can report that, as promised, the rest of our troops in Iraq will come home by the end of the year.

  Barack Obama

  Home, Years, Iraq

  "U.S. Troops To Leave Iraq, But Questions Remain". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. October 22, 2011.

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• An Associated Press report called the President's antics 'Bible-thumping politics.' Clinton's message was decidedly religious and partisan, as was Governor's Cuomo's remarks as he 'also cited religious themes and maxims.' Why didn't the press, the ACLU, and People for the American Way cry foul?

  Gary DeMar

  Christian, Religious, People

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• Whatever else the religious Right may be, it is a bonanza for its opponents... Reports of the great terror that is upon us are raising millions of dollars in fund appeals by Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Organization for Women, Norman Lear's People for the American Way, and others who claim to believe that the religious Right is the greatest peril to American democracy since Joe McCarthy.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  Christian, Religious, Believe

  Richard John Neuhaus, Michael Cromartie, Ethics and Public Policy Center (Washington, D.C.) (1987). “Piety and politics: evangelicals and fundamentalists confront the world”, Ethics & Public Policy Center

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• An Associated Press report by Chicago-based reporter Sharon Cohen in May 1993 examined Christian fundamentalists and concluded that they were prone to 'riots, terrorism - and death.'

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, Chicago

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• I met a lot of the senior Taliban, and I asked them precisely [about Mullah Omar]. The most common answer was he is humble. And that was very true. We never had reports of Mullah Omar living luxuriously or making money in large quantities or anything like that.

  Ahmed Rashid

  Senior, Humble, Answers

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The latest report is that Osama bin Laden has shaved his beard, is wearing Western clothes and has had plastic surgery. Isn't that amazing? The guy has made just two videos and he's already gone Hollywood.

  Jay Leno

  Two, Clothes, Guy

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• Now there are reports that Osama bin Laden would like to commit suicide on television. This is the kind of lead-in I have been praying for every since I came to CBS. Bin Laden is planning a televised suicide or, as I call it, hosting the Academy Awards.

  David Letterman

  Suicide, Awards, Television

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• There are reports on the news tonight that members of the Taliban feel persecuted and fear their own safety. So now they know what it is like to feel like a woman in their country.

  Jay Leno

  Country, Safety, News

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