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I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that 'issue' I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#totalitarianism

Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. ↗

— Brooks Adams

#been #hatreds #organization #politics #practice

Each of my records has a different focus, a different theme. ↗

— Mark Edwards

#each #focus #records #theme

They call me Fearless Felix. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#fearless #me

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#equivalent #negative #performance #print #score

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#beneath #effectively #humanity #latent #live

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. ↗

— Henry Adams

#american society #anything #flat #into #pond

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead. ↗

— Jerry Gillies

#ahead #aside #confront #fears #get

You know what would help?" I asked, not meeting his eyes. "Hmm?" "If you turned off this crap music and put on something that came out after the Berlin Wall went down." Dimitri laughted. "Your worst class is history, yet somehow, you know everything about Eastern Europe." "Hey, gotta have material for my jokes, Comrade." Still smiling, he turned the radio dail. To a country station. "Hey! This isn't what I had in mind," I exclaimed. I could tell he was on the verge of laughing again. "Pick. It's one or the other." I sighed. "Go back to the 1980s stuff." He flipped the dail, and I crossed my arms over my chest as some vaguely European-sounding band sang about how video had killed the radio star. I wished someone would kill this radio. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#humor

I know what I like when I see it, but no way have I ever become interested in learning about it. ↗

— Timothy Spall

#become #ever #i #i see #interested