"One can only guess the amount of magic mushrooms a sane person would have to consume to believe that a frisbee constituted a genuine threat to roughly 3,000 police officers."
"There is little difference in the knowledge held by those who can't learn and those who won't."
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Source: Peace activist Leymah Gbowee. The Tavis Smiley show, www.pbs.org. October 5, 2011.
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