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To a billion people around the world surviving on just a dollar a day, the question of what to eat tonight is more about life and death than about recipes. The struggle of poor people around the globe weighs heavily on me, especially now that I am a mother, which is why I work with Oxfam. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#am #around #billion #day #death

Some day, somebody is going to have to start talking about what happens to us all a decade from now if we let these North Koreans and the Iranians go forward with their nuclear weapons program. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#day #decade #forward #go #going

The fact of the matter is that if we were going to do anything about Gaddafi, it should have been at the beginning. And by fooling around like this as long as we have, we have wasted an opportunity that would have gotten rid of him. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#anything #around #been #beginning #fact

The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind of game we used to worry about with the Soviet Union, only the Soviet Union was more mature about this whole thing than I think the North Koreans will be. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

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I have always been honest about my recollection of events. ↗

— David Blunkett

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While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#among #called #especially #fact #gossip

The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden. ↗

— Ken Thompson

#average #garden #gardener #going #her

What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done. I'm not going to sing about ploughing, but I'll write a song that sounds like it should be about ploughing. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#always #basically #bob #bob dylan #did

For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

#bad #controversy #criticized #deserved #felt

I'm a smart guy, I know the history of this issue and why people care about it. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

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