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DAVID SCOTT Why ban guns? Let's give everyone rocket launchers! What could possibly go wrong?
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ALEXANDER COCKBURN England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty pla...
ALEXANDER COCKBURN The pack slumbered and only a few watchdogs rattled their chains.
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ALEXANDER COCKBURN The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin
ALEXANDER COCKBURN A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
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ALEXANDER COCKBURN They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies tha...
ALEXANDER COCKBURN The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.
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ALEXANDER COCKBURN The travel writer seeks the world we have lost --the lost valleys of the imagination.
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ALEXANDER COCKBURN The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
ALEXANDER COCKBURN The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it
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ALEXANDER COCKBURN If they were so concerned with marriage, why aren't they promoting a constitutional ban on divorce? ...
RICK GARCIA The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich.
JAMES SUROWIECKI Ban the Ban Rally.
HOMER SIMPSON This ban was enacted at the federal level, and Congress decided that it was an ineffective tool to c...
ANDREW ARULANANDAM That's all I can do is wonder. Why did they do that?
EVELYN EZELL The so-called assault weapons ban is a hoax. It is a political appeal to the ignorant. The guns it s...
DAVID MAMET We live in a place that has so many unanswered questions. Why did Allison victimize this man? Why di...
ANNETTE AYERS Quite frankly, they are not showing any kind of safety increase for having that ban in place.
ERIC SKRUM Why did they settle, if they thought they were entitled to more?
BARRY RICHARD And they drew Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. And Alexander beckoned w...
BIBLE All Lou Ness has ever wanted to do is have some dialogue with that board about why they did what the...
MARK GUMMERSON We made more mistakes today than they did, and that's why they won. To their credit, they did a bett...
HARRY PETERSON Why did they take my pen and the papers that I need during the trial.
SADDAM HUSSEIN The children's department is split up. It doesn't make any sense why they did that.
JENNIFER DEER They're angry. That's why they did it, I think.
HUGO WEAVING Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew!
MALCOLM GLADWELL I asked them why they did it and they said they had no reason.
LOREN WALCH Why must I prove that I am me when I pay bills over the phone? Did some else call to pay my bills, a...
ANONYMOUS Did they ever look at why the hours weren't used?
SHARON ANDERSON Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great Butcher
.. how much responsibility
does Aristotle his teache...
O ANNA NIEMUS I'm sure that the average person thought we would fold up right there. That's all everyone thinks we...
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SHERYL SANDBERG The reason a lot of women can't move on from a relationship or people they love is because they need...
SHANNON L. ALDER We generally survey the fire chiefs. If they want a burn ban, we issue it.
DAN HALL Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you ...
KARIN SLAUGHTER We told the kids they had to come out tonight and show us why they want to be division champs, and I...
BOB MEYER The state ... said those resources would be here at noon. That did not happen. They began arriving l...
CARL FOWLER Broken promises don't upset me. I just think, why did they believe me?
JACK HANDY James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser.
DIANA GABALDON I've learnt that sometimes you've got to be patient. But it's hard for me to judge why they did it.
STEPHEN CHOW I'd ask him, 'Willie, why did you do that?' ... But he never knew why.
DONNA WILLIAMS I'd ask him, 'Willie, why did you do that?' ... But he never knew why.
DONNA WILLIAMS I'm fascinated by anything that deals with the unexplained. I love any show that totally makes m...
ELENA SATINE They beat us on pure hustle. They wanted it more than we did and that's why they have it.
GREG THARRINGTON [Jones] did a really good job of making his pitch when he had to. He did that for five innings, and ...
DENNIS DEPER I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking t...
BILLY JOEL Twitter should ban my mother.
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GEORGE CARLIN Democracy demands that judges confine themselves to a narrow sphere of influence - that is why the l...
EDWIN MEESE If I'm so popular, why did they replace me with Tommy Thayer?
ACE FREHLEY People expected something for nothing, that’s why they did nothing so beautifully these days.
HOLLY HOOD In this episode, it picks up that they did date some and he stopped calling Reba and you found out w...
JAMIE DENTON It's pretty obvious we needed a burn ban, with conditions like they are and no rain in sight.
BENNY GRAY It was a puzzling thing as to why they packed up in towns in the way they did.
PAULETTE JILES Oh, why did people have to be seperated before they understood how much they meant to each other?
LINDA CREW They lie those that say I lost the moon,
those that prophesized my fate of sand,
they asse...
PABLO NERUDA Why did they go to Hollywood? Because they could get access to the American financial sector. The Je...
JEAN-LUC GODARD One of them says, 'Why did they do it?'
And the other answers, 'Because they could.'
That ...
NAOMI ALDERMAN The failure in response was just as tragic as the hurricane. Why weren't we more prepared? Why weren...
WALLACE DAVIS I said to him (Alexander) that if I were to put him back in the game and he were to get hurt, I woul...
MIKE HOLMGREN They tell people that the language is sloppy and ask them not to risk a judge using those words to b...
GLEN MAXEY Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important rea...
XI JINPING Ah me, why did they build my house by the road to the market
town?
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BILLY CORGAN I can easily imagine Socrates in Alexander's place; Alexander in that of Socrates - never
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PHIL SANDS It's special to block for Shaun Alexander.
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FELICITY JONES Why . . . why did some people think you were dead?”
The marquis looked at Richard with eyes t...
NEIL GAIMAN That's what I want to ask him. How did they get up on the roof? Why did they do it? It is dangerous....
JOE WEBER One of the great lessons I learned about historical fiction from writing 'Loving Frank' is t...
NANCY HORAN could be read to ban Microsoft from competing in any product category. I know such a ban would be un...
BILL GATES I legitimately wanted to know if Mayor Bloomberg was going to ban large margaritas that I cry over w...
AWKWAFINA If it was that beautiful, why did I leave you
MARIAN KEYES You didn't have that, so why did you charge him?
DAVID SCHERTLER Princeton did a great job capitalizing on the mistakes we made and that was a big reason why they we...
DAN KALLAUGHER That's probably why they (the Senate) passed it the way they did, in the closing hours of the final ...
OSCAR AGUILAR While people may be impressed by your achievements, they are they may be more INSPIRED by WHY you di...
LORRIN L. LEE Everybody's for a form of smoking ban,
RICHARD M. DALEY The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this.
MARKUS ZUSAK Why . . . why did some people think you were dead?”
The marquis looked at Richard with eyes t...
NEIL GAIMAN The next four-story townhouse that comes up on Alexander will go in the fives.
SID MILLER All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.
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ALEXANDER Live with the current day, otherwise someday you'll wake up and realise that all remarkable and gorg...
ALEXANDER Endeavour to explore the surrounding world, try to do your best and jump over you head, only in that...
ALEXANDER As more busier and overwhelmed you're, as more free time you have.
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ALEXANDER POPE And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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ALEXANDER POPE See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled,
Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head!
Philos...
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[Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
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ALEXANDER HANSON I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom.
ALEXANDER LEBEDEV Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is ho...
ALEXANDER PAYNE That's not to say we won't hear an aircraft occasionally, but the national standard for noise compat...
ALAN ALEXANDER It's a very rugged country, and the weather can turn rapidly. Sometimes you can see the storms comin...
ALAN ALEXANDER Insurgents used to mortar the thing every day. Luckily, it was a very large base and they were very ...
ALAN ALEXANDER I had some personal reservations about, 'Can I do the job?' But I had no reservations about being mo...
ALAN ALEXANDER When my unit left, we felt good about what we had done.
ALAN ALEXANDER The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
ALEXANDER POPE Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about di...
JASON ALEXANDER War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresp...
ALEXANDER BERKMAN Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a lit...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion
ALEXANDER CHASE A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed
ALEXANDER CHASE To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
ALEXANDER CHASE To attempt suicide is a criminal offense. Any man who, of his own will, tries to escape the treadmil...
ALEXANDER CHASE The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible
ALEXANDER CHASE Psychiatry's chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the so...
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