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		Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Thomas Sowell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Walter Kirn 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn't exist today without the PC, or Epic, or Zynga, or Google. They all wouldn't have existed without the openness of the platform. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gabe Newell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Harrison Ford 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There is no room for Christians in today's Democratic Party. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ted Cruz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Edgar Bergen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Patrick J. Kennedy 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		New York is a special place; it's a city that I love. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rafael Nadal 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jack Herer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I grew up there was no web, blogging or tweeting. In fact, where I grew up there was not even television! I met a lot of my friends in school and in college, and they are still my friends today. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Indra Nooyi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I tell my grandchildren - I've got seven of them - to go to college and get that degree first. I could have stayed in college and still recorded. Isn't that something? The kids of today are doing it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barbara Lynn 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I am a sports enthusiast, and if given an opportunity, I want to be a sportsman, even today. I want to promote the sport that is indigenous to India. Kabaddi is a matter of national pride. Why can't cricket, hockey, football and kabaddi be given equal platforms and co-exist? I believe that can happen. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Abhishek Bachchan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				P. Chidambaram