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Each year terrorist attacks kill far fewer Americans than do auto accidents, drug overdoses, or even lightning strikes. Yet in the allocation of government resources, preventing terrorist attacks takes precedence over preventing all three of the others combined. Why is that?
Andrew Bacevich
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Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.
Naomi Wolf
Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
Otto von Bismarck
I grew up with the great Sir Laurence Olivier, and I think it's fair to say that a lot of actors of my age were influenced by his very individual vocal delivery. He was a showman who would always play to the gallery.
Ian Holm
I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.
Omari Hardwick
Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.
Carl Bernstein
When we have chosen the vocation in which we can contribute most to humanity, burdens cannot bend us because they are only sacrifices for all. Then we experience no meager, limited, egotistic joy, but our happiness belongs to millions, our deeds live on quietly but eternally effective, and glowing tears of noble men will fall on our ashes.
Karl Marx
The only thing that we have earned at the hands of perfect justice is perfect punishment.
R. C. Sproul
Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under its influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers, like emotional superheroes.
Kate Christensen
I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I got put on Ritalin and Dexedrine. I took those starting in the eighth grade. As soon as they pumped that drug into me, it would focus me right in.
Channing Tatum
' Life exists immersed in a sea of unconsciousness', he reminded himself. 'In the drug, these people gain a view of that sea'.
Frank Herbert
'Uasti was a good teacher,' he said. 'She made you look a little way into yourself, see what you could become.'
Tanith Lee
Each year terrorist attacks kill far fewer Americans than do auto accidents, drug overdoses, or even lightning strikes. Yet in the allocation of government resources, preventing terrorist attacks takes precedence over preventing all three of the others combined. Why is that?
Andrew Bacevich
