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“One tenet of the National Rifle Association's faith has always been that handgun controls do little to stop criminals from obtaining handguns. For once, the NRA is right and America's leading handgun control organization is wrong. Criminals don't buy guns in gun stores. That's why they're criminals. But it isn't criminals who are killing most of the 20,000 to 22,000 people who die from handguns each year. We are.”
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“Alas, criticism has always been what human beings, especially leaders, most hate to hear.”
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“Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world.”
Source : "Annie, Between the States". Book by L. M. Elliott, March 31, 2009.
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“Life started getting good when I started making money.”
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“I would like to say that I helped out our men in uniform, but the truth is I probably just grumbled at the noise.”
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“When the concept of human spirit is understood as the mode of consciousness in which the individual feels connected to the Cosmos as a whole, it becomes clear that ecological awareness is spiritual in its deepest sense.”
Source : Fritjof Capra, Pier Luigi Luisi (2014). “The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision”, p.13, Cambridge University Press
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“My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.”
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“General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out!”
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“I don't believe in colleges and universities.”
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“I suppose you know where this country would be, where the world would be, if everyone who got depressed by the papers stopped reading them.”
Source : SUE KAUFMAN (1967). “DIARY OF A MAD HOUSEWIFE”
