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“Life with Islam is life under Islam and its enablers.”

“On the unfalsifiable theory of global warming:"Evidence that contradicts the global warming theory, climate kooks enlist as evidence for the correctness of their theory; every permutation in weather patterns—warm or cold—is said to be a consequence of that warming or proof of it.”

“The end result of positively reinforcing bad behavior is that you get more of it. The culmination of a failure to punish predators is a debased, dissolute, slum-dog society in which, by legal decree, the righteous suffer and the wicked prosper.”

“Chinese mercantilism is not free trade, but it is far better than American militarism.”

“The prototypical WASP is flabby in body and mind. He is fearful and easily cowed. He erupts in tears at a drop of a hat. He is gripped by the culture of apology, and flagellates over sins he has not committed. His eternal state of expiation is driven not by goodness, but by insufferable self-righteousness.”

“Progressive policies lead to a regressive society.”

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"The destiny of photography has taken it far beyond the role to which it was originally thought to be limited: to give more accurate reports on reality . Photography is the reality; the real object is …"

— Susan Sontag

Literature1933–2004

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"In fact the wives of the patriarchs, all untruthful, and one a kleptomaniac, but illustrate the law, that the cardinal virtues are seldom found in oppressed classes."

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Literature1815–1902

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"Militarism in both its forms — as war and as armed peace — is a legitimate child, a logical result of capitalism, which can only be overcome with the destruction of capitalism, and that hence whoever …"

— Rosa Luxemburg

Social Activism1871–1919

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"The amount of time it takes to provide is threefold for families whom have to make due with very little. … Children from poor households learn to have very low expectations of themselves and their fut…"

— Manuel Rivera-Ortiz

Art1968

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