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		This has been the new normal since September 11. Everyone knows, but nobody says, that if something happens again, the elite consensus in this country, and the overwhelming consensus of the citizenry, will be to pitch the Bill of Rights out the window and start rounding folks up.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Charlie Pierce 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Salma Hayek 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Salman Rushdie 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				J. Robert Oppenheimer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Nagarjuna 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Lajos Kossuth 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Barbara Deming 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Sam Hunt 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There's no regrets for me. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Adam Lambert 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Bear Bryant 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Samuel Pepys 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Wade Boggs 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm not graceful. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Karlie Kloss 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Oswald Spengler 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think I usually have quite ordinary dreams. Sometimes my dreams take me to other dimensions. I can travel in my mind especially when I'm dreaming I focus my mind on what I want to dream. If I want to fly, I focus on flying. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Uri Geller 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Fundraising is a long and distracting process, and by the end of it, all you want to do is go back to building the product that you're working on. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				John Collison 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have a real kind of fundamental philosophical belief that movies are better if everyone gets paid when they work, and if they don't work, the people who worked on them make a little bit of money, and the people who finance them, they lose, but they don't lose too much. I believe that that creates better work. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jason Blum 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Well, I grew up as a democrat. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Chuck Norris 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		This has been the new normal since September 11. Everyone knows, but nobody says, that if something happens again, the elite consensus in this country, and the overwhelming consensus of the citizenry, will be to pitch the Bill of Rights out the window and start rounding folks up. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Charlie Pierce