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		For over ten years, bombs rained down on every village and hamlet in South Vietnam, and no one budged. It took the coming of a Communist 'peace' to send hundreds of thousands of people out into the South China Sea, on anything that could float, or might float, to risk dehydration, piracy, drowning . . .
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vernon A. Walters 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Saint Teresa of Avila 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Every man I meet is in some way my superior. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ralph Waldo Emerson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My generation, we really have to step up to the plate and vote. Tweeting is great - people say, 'Oh, I don't want this or that' - but at the end of the day, tweeting isn't a ballot. Just saying that you don't like someone on Twitter is not going to turn a state blue or red. You have to vote. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zendaya 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it's worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Salman Rushdie 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The way our government handled the Chibok girls case goes beyond an election matter. This is not a one-time issue we discuss over elections. We need to have a deeper conversation about what kind of a nation we want to be. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Obiageli Ezekwesili 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I pretty much will do anything for a laugh. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gail Carriger 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		They used to call me Cam-bones because I was so skinny. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Cameron Richardson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Fernando Pessoa 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Donald Trump’s voice is resonating with average Americans who feel their voice has been lost by their party, I believe this will become a new Republican Party, one that we should embrace. We should be the party of working men and women, the party of America first. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Lou Barletta 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Everything we do in the digital realm - from surfing the Web to sending an e-mail to conducting a credit card transaction to, yes, making a phone call - creates a data trail. And if that trail exists, chances are someone is using it - or will be soon enough. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Douglas Rushkoff 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bjork 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		While the hippocampus itself doesn't store memories, it serves to triage our experiences based upon their survival significance. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				David Perlmutter 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		Every young actor wants to do 'Hamlet' on the West End. Why? Because they can bring something to it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Martin Landau 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Franz Kafka 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Pete du Pont 
			 
		 
	
	
	 
	
	
	
	
		Fereydun, that's my dad's name. My grandmother, my dad's mom, when she was pregnant, she was dating a man from Persia, a Persian gentleman. It wasn't his child, but he was still very supportive and said, 'Hey, this is a great name,' and so it stuck. So that's what she named him. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Fred Armisen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		For over ten years, bombs rained down on every village and hamlet in South Vietnam, and no one budged. It took the coming of a Communist 'peace' to send hundreds of thousands of people out into the South China Sea, on anything that could float, or might float, to risk dehydration, piracy, drowning . . . 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vernon A. Walters