"The reprisal against the suicide bomber does not bring peace. There is a suicide bomber, a reprisal and then a counter-reprisal. And it just goes on and on."
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"Does taking the life of the perpetrator return your mom? No."
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"That so called "original sin" does not know any racial discrimination."
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"......what I was born does not matter, only what I will make of myself, only what I will become."
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"...still I dinna expect anything to happen to me. But if it should...If it does, then I want there to be a place for you; I want someone for you to go to if I am...not there to care for you. If it canna be me, then I would have it be a man who loves you."
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"Millions of Americans have paid into social security and deserve their full benefits. Pure and simple, Republicans are manufacturing a social security crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle social security."
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"As God adds his 'Yes' to your 'Yes,' as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, and approves of, your triumph and rejoicing and pride, he makes you at the same time instruments of his will and purpose both for yourselves and for others. In his unfathomable condescension God does add his 'Yes' to yours; but by doing so, he creates out of your love something quite new - the holy estate of matrimony."
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"Presidential leadership is a really tough job, does come not easily."
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"I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?"
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"The music does bring us together and it's cheaper than therapy!"
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"What does one do about the dead? They live forever."
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"Why' is the only question that bothers people enough to have an entire letter of the alphabet named after it. The alphabet does not go 'A B C D What? When? How?' but it does go 'V W X Why? Z."
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""Does God know he [exists]?" "Of course he does. Otherwise, you could not have asked the question, and I could not have answered.""
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"It takes a long time before we really get to grips with this [Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species'] and begin to understand it, because not only does it seem incredible and thoroughly demeaning to us, but it's yet another shock to our system to discover that not only are we not the centre of the Universe and we're not made by anything, but we started out as some kind of slime and got to where we are via being a monkey. It just doesn't read well."
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"Radio did not kill books and television did not kill radio or movies - what television did kill was cinema newsreel. TV does it much better because it can deliver it instantly. Who wants last week's news?"
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"When I think of myself, I think of Toronto. My music would never sound the way it does if it weren't for Toronto."
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"I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I’ll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets."
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"I think everything keeps changing. There was a time when television was a bad thing for actors and it meant that you could only do television, and now we see everyone does television."
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"And where does she find them?"
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"A man's goodness is truly measured by what he is, not what he does."
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