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• The CIA is absolutely out of control. The CIA has been on a killing spree... The CIA has become a death squad and to see these films [ like Zero Dark Thirty] get so much acclaim at the time when the CIA is in its rogue killing phase is very disturbing.

  Medea Benjamin

  Dark, Squad, Phases

  Source: progressive.org

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• Woman at Point Zero I wrote during the '70s in Arabic. It came in English in '82. So, almost ten years' difference between the Arabic and the English.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Years, Differences, Ten

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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• The role of geo-engineering should, in a world of responsibility, in a world of scientifically enlightened decision making and ecological understanding, it should be zero. There is no role for geo-engeneering. Because what is geoengineering but extending the engineering paradigm?

  Vandana Shiva

  Responsibility, Engineering, Decision

  Source: www.nogeoingegneria.com

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• The probability of success is difficult to estimate; but if we never search the chance of success is zero.

  Philip Morrison

  Chance, Difficult, Probability

  Philip Morrison (1997). “Nothing Is Too Wonderful to Be True”, p.180, Springer Science & Business Media

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• I don't think I ever would have had a problem being vulnerable or introspective but the problem with drinking is it's very hard to zero in on one part. You're not dealing with anything in real time, you're constantly moving and constantly going. You're drinking to get away from things, things your dealing with. My wife might be calling me trying to argue and I don't wanna deal with it so I just go drink and by the time we talk again I'm so drunk I just don't care. I'll just deal with it however.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Real, Drinking, Moving

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Politicians refuse to modernize schools, they cut out midnight basketball, but build all these new jails. First class jails, second class schools. This is zero tolerance.

  Jesse Jackson

  Basketball, School, Cutting

  Source: www.colorlines.com

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• while it's true in tennis, love is zero. but zero is also where everything starts. nothing would ever be born if we didn't depart from there. nothing would be ever achieved.

  Gosho Aoyama

  Love Is, Tennis, Would Be

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• If we are addressing the issue of weapons of mass destruction, we need to send a uniform, consistent message that there is zero tolerance to any country who is developing weapons of mass destruction, North Korea included.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Country, Mass Destruction, Korea

  "CNN Late Edition" with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. April 27, 2003.

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• He suddenly felt nothing, or rather Nothing, a pre-tornadic stillness of zero sensation, as if he were the very space he occupied.

  David Foster Wallace

  Space, Emptiness, Felt

  "Several Birds" by David Foster Wallace, www.newyorker.com. June 27, 1994.

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• Providing clean, efficient solar/electric generators to industries such as oil companies, spanning from film and event production, construction, disaster relief, agriculture, forestry, and nonprofit organizations. We're literally helping green oil companies, helping them find ways to pollute less while creating jobs. When I look at the breadth of positive impact these technologies can have, I truly get excited. Imagine a generator where ZERO fuel is used!

  Ian Somerhalder

  Jobs, Technology, Organization

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• I am a Prince," he replied, being rather dense. "It is the function of a Prince—value A—to kill monsters—value B—for the purpose of establishing order—value C—and maintaining a steady supply of maidens—value D. If one inserts the derivative of value A (Prince) into the equation y equals BC plus CD squared, and sets it equal to zero, giving the apex of the parabola, namely, the point of intersection between A (Prince) and B (Monster), one determines value E—a stable kingdom. It is all very complicated, and if you have a chart handy I can graph it for you.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Order, Cds, Giving

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• As a girl, she was a legal prey, especially if she was dressed in a worn black leather jacket and had pierced eyebrows, tattoos, and zero social status.

  Steig Larsson

  Tattoo, Girl, Leather Jackets

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• Everybody goes down to a least common denominator, and as a result, productivity goes down to zero. And we've seen that in every communist country around the world.

  Rafael Cruz

  Country, World, Common

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• The Fugazi Live Series site, when we realized the Internet, the way it works - the speeds and its development - made it possible to have one source of infinite copies, was incredible for us. Using tapes or CD's to make copies would have been so unwieldy. We have shows that have zero downloads, which makes me sad, but they're all freely available at any time. The most downloaded show was the one with the best audio quality, but I didn't think it was a very interesting show.

  Ian MacKaye

  Thinking, Cds, Interesting

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• The 80s were deranged. People had all these liberties all of a sudden and all the freedom in the world, the Less Than Zero sort of themes that came from that period, I think electronic music works very well for that whole idiom.

  Sam de Jong

  Thinking, People, Liberty

  Source: noisey.vice.com

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• We have to start at ground zero and ask what it means to have a real connection with God and what it means to pray. We have to recast our whole understanding of God. We live on the other side of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Steven Hawking, a whole group of people who have recast the way we think about reality.

  John Shelby Spong

  Real, Mean, Thinking

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• I still am amazed by the reaction I get from people when I tell them that there was zero immigration in this country from 1924 to 1965. And the reason that people don't know that, A, they just don't know it, it's not reported, it's never been part of history class, history education.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Class, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• On 'Idol,' Steven Tyler will be sitting at a table with two other judges, and part of his job will be keeping his yap zipped while they talk. This makes no sense at all, since Tyler has zero yap-zipping skills.

  Rob Sheffield

  Jobs, Idols, Skills

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• The madness of depression is, generally speaking, the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained.

  William Styron

  Depression, Psychics, Storm

  William Styron (2010). “Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• His fingertips slid down from my face, lightly stroking the line of my neck, down toward my shoulder. Everywhere he touched, a trail of goose bumps appeared. How did he keep doing this to me? Marcus—who made every girl in the world swoon—had zero effect on me. But one whisper of a touch from Adrian completely undid me.

  Richelle Mead

  Girl, Bumps, World

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• A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.

  Mark Twain

  Hard Work, Men, Self

  Mark Twain (2016). “A Tramp Abroad”, p.280, Xist Publishing

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• I am magnificently prepared for the long littleness of life. There is diddley-squat for me to look forward to. Zilch, zero, zip-all, sweet lipperty-pipperty nothing. The only thought that will give me the energy to carry on is that someone has a life which would be diminished by my departure from it.

  Stephen Fry

  Sweet, Long, Giving

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• The real issue of dealing with proliferation of weapons of mass destruction: nuclear, chemical or biological is: What is your tolerance for risk? And my tolerance for risk for WMD proliferation is pretty close to zero. Because otherwise, we and our allies are at the mercy of regimes like Ahmadinejad and the mullahs in Tehran, or Kim Jong Il and the Hitler-in-the-bunker mentality in Pyongyang, or others who don't share our calculus on the value of human life.

  John Bolton

  Real, Issues, Wmd

  Source: humanevents.com

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• When Rudy Giuliani became mayor of New York in 1993, his belief in the 'Broken Windows' theory led him to implement the 'Zero Tolerance' crime policy. Crime dropped dramatically, significantly, and continued to for the next ten years. Personally, I feel the time has come for women to introduce their own Zero Tolerance policy on the Broken Windows issues in our lives - I want a Zero Tolerance policy on 'All The Patriarchal Bullshit'.

  Caitlin Moran

  New York, Issues, Years

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• I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from the food.

  Suzanne Collins

  People, Distraction, Interest

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.590, Scholastic Inc.

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