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Terrorism is the tactic of the weak.
- George F. Will, The End of Our Holiday from History, Washington Post, September 11, 2001
If you show male frontal nudity, you never get an R.
- Larry Clark on his new film, Bully, Salon, July 20, 2001
Suicide is the third leading cause of death among teen agers, and (sarcastically) I bet every single one of those parents said, "Sure saw that coming."
- "Harry Senate," Boston Public Episode 116, March 26, 2001
With women I never cry, I beg.
- Rodney Dangerfield, Back to School, 1986
Ask anyone who has heard of the project what they think of Kansai Airport and they are likely to say, 'Oh, it's sinking isn't it?'. Generally this is said with a kind of glee, as if to declare, 'That's another fine mess man has got into by trying something new'. It is a view that seems to reflect society's current preoccu-pation with expecting the worst rather than seeing the possibilities for the future.
- Sheila Phillips, A cathedral for the new millennium, from Living Marxism issue 76, February 1995
I marched for civil rights with Dr. King in 1963 - long before Hollywood found it fashionable. But when I told an audience last year that white pride is just as valid as black pride or red pride or anyone else's pride, they called me racist. ... I've worked with brilliantly talented homosexuals all my life. But when I told an audience that gay rights should extend no further than your rights or my rights, I was called a homophobe. I served in World War II against the Axis powers. But during a speech, when I drew an analogy between singling out innocent Jews and singling out innocent gun owners, I was called an anti-Semite.
- Charlton Heston
For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.
- Lyndon Baines Johnson, Presidential Inaugural Address, January 20, 1965
Billie Jean King may have trashed Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes a quarter-century ago, but all she proved was that a woman tennis player at the top of her game could beat a guy way past his prime.
- Cathy Young, Battle of the Sexes: The power and the paradox of women's sports, Reason, August 17, 2001
Anthropologists view culture as a system of coping strategies devised by a society to ensure security and survival. These strategies consist of behavioral models for interacting with the physical and social environment as well as conceptual models for making sense of that interaction. By providing ways of thinking about and meeting the problems of existence, cultural systems are adaptive mechanisms, interposed between a society and its physical and social environment.
- Charles F. Wilkinson, American Indians, Time, and the Law, 1987
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