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🇺🇸Stephen King

Literature

b. 1986

"Born in Lust, Turn to Dust. Born in Sin, Come on In"

"The road ahead of you is long, dark, and, I very much fear, bloodstained. I also very much fear that you will take us all down that road. But you must live to reach the end of it."

"U.S. dominance of the Middle East is not the corrective to terror. It is a cause of terror. Were we not over there, the 9/11 terrorists would not have been over here."

"You’ve got to be honest about what it means to lead a country, it means killing people."

"Liberals have managed to eliminate the idea of manly honor. Instead, all they have is womanly indignation."

"So let’s bid a not at all fond farewell to the Big Zero — the decade in which we achieved nothing and learned nothing."

"This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work."

"Every Messiah fails, writes Litvak, the moment he tries to redeem himself"

"Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience."

"The Five-seveN has been loved and hated in the years since its introduction. It is one of the most controversial handguns of our time, and was so even before the Fort Hood atrocity."

"The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have."

"I said to myself ‘I'm going to own this job. I'm going to make sure that I know this better than all of these guys and they're not gonna be able to push me around"

"Our founders, in the words of Thomas Paine, recognized that, “Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one."

"If Marx were functioning today, he would have been hard put to avoid saying that imaginary sex is the opiate of the people."

"Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived."

"Pipe down Mr Indignation. We'll see what the viewers thought of your double standards, your indignation about me and the aplomb with which you become a lying plutocrat in your gentleman's club."

"By picking this particular fight , Apple is doing the technology industry a big disservice. ... Apple will very likely lose this case in the courts and suffer a public relations disaster."

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🇺🇸Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Politics

1894–1981

"Finding Aid for the Margaret E. Sangster Papers at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro"

"If you try to discuss multiculturalism in the UK you're labelled a racist. But here we're still free to talk, and I say multicultural society doesn't work. We're not living closer, we're living apart."

"People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage to their servile and salivating roots own dogs."

"A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor."

"I have work to do, and I am afraid not to do it."

"I'm always intrigued at how few people understand that free speech encompasses a little more than the speech you like."

"It’s a mistake to think that the far right cares about the free speech debate as anything other than a way of confusing the enemy. The far right doesn’t have a profound philosophy, it has a media strategy."

"Everybody deserves to live a life of dignity, with their bare-minimum needs met in... “the richest society in history of the world.” It’s an idea whose time has come..."

"ationalism does require the mainstream conservative movement to jettison its best principles. Three in particular stand out."

"A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it."

"Israel should really reflect on what's going on in Egypt. It does not want to be the Hosni Mubarak of the peace process."

"I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer."

"We need succession in career women's clubs. The younger generation of women helps us to be more aware of how our world is changing."

"Vajpayee's additional generosity to Muslim pilgrims earned him, in Varsha Bhosle's unsparing satirical columns, the alias Hajpayee."

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🇺🇸Noam Cohen

Literature

"Through Google, you can find the horrible things people say about you, and the nice things they say about you. And so I do that regularly to sort of check on it."

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