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• Today, we will hear from federal law enforcement agencies, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, who will discuss the problem of ELF and ALF and law enforcement's reaction to their dangerous and destructive tactics. It is these tactics, particularly the widespread use of arson, which makes ELF and ALF the #1 domestic terror concern over the likes of white supremacists, militias, and anti-abortion groups.

  James Inhofe

  Law, White, Agency

  Senate Hearing 109-947 before Committee on Environment and Public Works, May 18, 2005.

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• Once you decide to gut a fish, there's no use waiting till it rots.

  Robert Jordan

  Waiting, Fishes, Guts

  Robert Jordan (2002). “The Dragon Reborn: Book Three of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.244, Macmillan

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• Put a lot of paint & a wooden ball or other object on a board. Push to the other end of the board. Use this in a painting. - ruler on board.

  Jasper Johns

  Boards, Balls, Painting

  Francis M. Naumann, Jasper Johns, Gagosian Gallery (1992). “Jasper Johns: according to what & watchman”

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• There is no economic policy. That's really important to say. The general modus operandi of the Bushies is that they don't make policies to deal with problems. They use problems to justify things they wanted to do anyway. So there is no policy to deal with the lack of jobs. There really isn't even a policy to deal with terrorism. It's all about how can we spin what's happening out there to do what we want to do.

  Paul Krugman

  Jobs, Important, Want

  BuzzFlash interview, September 11, 2003.

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• People think that creativity is largely a matter of talent, experience, or luck. They are wrong. Talent, experience, and luck are all key elements, but there is something more fundamental, accessible, and powerful that you can use to multiply your creative effect.

  Richard Koch

  Powerful, Creativity, Thinking

  Richard Koch (2003). “The 80/20 Individual: How to Build on the 20% of What You do Best”, p.12, Crown Business

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• The longer-term the option, the sillier the results generated by the Black-Scholes option pricing model, and the greater the opportunity for people who didn't use it.

  Michael Lewis

  Opportunity, People, Black

  Michael Lewis (2015). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)”, p.136, W. W. Norton & Company

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• What I really have a sense of dismay about is that there is a center of anything. I think maybe Cleveland can use one. Also possibly Los Angeles needs informed cultural guidance and a place to go get it. But not New York. New York is a center, a world's fair, and a den of thieves, and a house of miracles.

  Frank Loesser

  New York, Thinking, Miracle

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• Twelve to seventeen minutes is plenty on the treadmill--if it's done fast. That's all you need for cardiovascular benefit. You don't need to spend that extra time unless you are over weight and you need to burn off extra calories. Do it vigorously, like somebody is chasing you. You've got to do it hard. Otherwise, if you just take it easy and do it longer, you are spending all that time when you don't need it. Use that extra time with your weights instead.

  Jack LaLanne

  Extra Time, Needs, Done

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• As information technology becomes millions of times more powerful, any particular use of it becomes correspondingly cheaper. Thus, it has become commonplace to expect online services (not just news, but 21st century treats like search or social networking) to be given for free, or rather, in exchange for acquiescence to being spied on.

  Jaron Lanier

  Powerful, Technology, Networking

  Jaron Lanier (2014). “Who Owns the Future?”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• If, it was natural to reason, God punishes men with eternal torment, it is surely lawful for men to use doses of it in a good cause.

  Joseph McCabe

  Men, Causes, Reason

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• The long history of mankind is studded with convergences, perhaps most notably in social systems and the use of artefacts and technology. But for human history, set in the arrow of time, there appears to be one intolerable stumbling-block. This is the catastrophic failure in human values and decency.

  Simon Conway Morris

  Block, Technology, Arrows

  "The Crucible of Creation". Book by Simon Conway Morris, 1998.

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• The labouring poor, to use a vulgar expression, seem always to live from hand to mouth. Their present wants employ their whole whole attention, and they seldom think of the future. Even when they have an opportunity of saving they seldom exercise it, but all that is beyond their present neccessities goes, generally speaking, to the ale house.

  Thomas Malthus

  Exercise, Opportunity, Thinking

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.44, eKitap Projesi

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• On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to wealth by maintaining such a balance between produce and consumption as will give the greatest exchangeable value to the results of the national industry.

  Thomas Malthus

  Encouragement, Giving, Balance

  Thomas Robert Malthus, Edward Anthony Wrigley, David Souden (1986). “The Works of Thomas Robert Malthus: Principles of political economy. Part 2”

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• My voice in combination with the harp - which, by the way, I use because I've played it my entire life, not to make some statement about the harp - somehow has ... coloured people's interpretations of the music and projected an idea of childlike or fairytale quality or innocence. Which sometimes prevents people from listening to the songs the way I would like them to be listened to.

  Joanna Newsom

  Song, Ideas, Voice

  Sydney Morning Herald, October 10, 2005.

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• Pat Buchanan... was fired by MSNBC for doing nothing more than voicing his rock-solid conservative thoughts on the otherwise failing network... The real message of the left is intolerance, zealotry, bigotry and hate. The left has no use for the First Amendment or the rest of the Constitution unless it fits their multicultural, euro-socialist agenda, which is failing all across Europe and everywhere it is practiced.

  Ted Nugent

  Real, Hate, Rocks

  Washington Times, February 20, 2012.

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• We're doing a great disservice to our young people because the only protection is abstinence, as condoms have been proven fallible. The federal government should not be telling young people to use condoms. It's also an insult to teenagers, reducing them to the level of a dog that can't control its hormones.

  Christine O'Donnell

  Dog, Teenager, Government

  Washington Times, December 01, 1995.

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• I go to a meeting every day. I surround myself with people who don't use. I recently got back from Ozzfest and I caught myself in kind of a sticky situation where I was around a lot of people using, drinking and it was kind of - I didn't have the urge to use once, but I just knew I shouldn't have been there.

  Jack Osbourne

  Drinking, People, Kind

  "Jack Talks About His Addiction and Recovery". MTV.com,

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• Humanity, morality, decency, might be forgotten, but codfish must still be had for the use of the faithful in Lent and on fast days.

  Francis Parkman

  Humanity, Faithful, Might

  Francis Parkman (1871). “Pioneers of France in the New World”, p.208

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• When governments and other vested interests attack me personally I usually regard it as a vindication, otherwise they would use facts. That's why I believe in the wonderful Claud Cockburn dictum, 'Never believe anything until it is officially denied.' It has certainly been my experience.

  John Pilger

  Believe, Government, Facts

  "This much I know". Interview with Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2005.

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• One of the chief reasons for the widespread fear of the Huns rested on their ability to travel very long distances in relatively short periods. This ability may well have been based on their use of horseshoes.

  Carroll Quigley

  Distance, Long, May

  Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• I don't think that anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Airplane, Thinking, People

  "Tough questions teed up for Rice testimony" by Mimi Hall and Judy Keen, usatoday30.usatoday.com. May 16, 2002.

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• The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech...For true poetry is never speech but always a song.

  Herbert Read

  Song, Speech, Modern

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• First of all, principles should be general. That is, it must be possible to formulate them without use of what would be intuitively recognized as proper names, or rigged definite descriptions.

  John Rawls

  Names, Principles, Would Be

  John RAWLS (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.131, Harvard University Press

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• I use colors that have already been experienced through the light of day and through the state of mind of the total man. In other words, my colors are not colors that are laboratory tools which are isolated from all accidentals or impurities so that they have a specified identity or purity.

  Mark Rothko

  Men, Light, Color

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• For the first time, I wasn't embarrassed by the look of beauty, of elegance, because when you see someone who has only one rag as their property, but it happens to be beautiful and pink and silk, beauty doesn't have to be separated... I have always said that you shouldn't have biases, you shouldn't have prejudices. But before that [before his trip to India, circa 1975] I'd never been able to use purple, because it was too beautiful.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Beautiful, Purple, India

  "Rauschenberg: Art and Life". Book by Mary Lynn Kotz, 1990.

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