"Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding."
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"I never touched a gun in my life. That and that alone forever doomed me to middle management."
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"The idea of not getting a gun is not because I'm afraid of guns, it's not because I think guns are wrong, it's because it's impractical, it's stupid and it's exactly what they want me to do."
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"One of the things I would love to do, by the time I die, is be in every single genre. That would be really fun. I get to shoot guns and jump out of a helicopter."
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"I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the house; and that he'd rather I'd shoot at tin cans in the backyard. But he said that sooner or later he supposed the temptation to go after birds would be too much, and that I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted - if I could hit 'em; but to remember it was a sin to kill a mockingbird."
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"Wrong perceptions cannot be removed by guns and bombs. They should be removed by deep listening, compassionate listening, and loving space."
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"For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against."
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"The Russians put guns before butter. We put just about everything before guns."
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"History is a story of violence at work. It all comes down to the old saw that, however much you can gain with a kind word, you can gain more with a kind word and a gun."
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"They say if you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. Well, those are precisely the people who need them!"
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"[Barack Obama] is sending more troops [to Afghanistan], but they have also realized that we are not going to win that war through guns and tanks. We have to engage the neighbors, and it is good that there is a non-military strategy in addition to a military strategy. It is, at least, encouraging. Whether it will work or not, the jury is still put."
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"If I ever do get married," Tariq said, "they'll have to make room for three on the wedding stage. Me, the bride, and the guy holding the gun to my head"
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"I wish that more and more adventurous young men would give up the gun in favour of the camera."
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"I arm myself with punch lines and a big old water gun."
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"The first sign of a 'smoking gun,' they argue, may be a mushroom cloud."
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"I do like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them. But I like - if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them."
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"If it were up to me we'd ban them all."
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"Men should spend less time with guns and more time in childbirth."
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"War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun."
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"Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes from the barrel of a gun can be effective only for a short time. In the end, peoples love for truth, justice, freedom, and democracy will triumph. No matter what governments do, the human spirit will always prevail."
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