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I was on a train of lies. I couldn't jump off. ↗

— Clifford Irving

#jump #lies #off #train

Plus, 40% of our debt is owned by foreign interest. I can't support a plan that passes along cost burden to our children and makes us more reliant on foreign dollars. ↗

— Steve Israel

#burden #children #cost #debt #dollars

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.... ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#identity #nation #nationalism #politics #political

What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#become #difficult #face #having #i

You know, this is - one can imagine how life would be different if one body of Congress was controlled by the other party, there would be subpoena power and there would be all - mechanisms to get to the bottom of all sorts of issues of controversy. ↗

— Michael Isikoff

#body #bottom #congress #controlled #controversy

It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#condition #consent #contemplation #cruel #cruelty

No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon. ↗

— John Archibald Wheeler

#phenomenon #real #until

The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#amendment #amendment rights #beliefs #believe #censorship

When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#down #force #form #freedoms #huge

I believe that whatever we have, regardless of a trade being done or not, I feel we have a shot. I've just got to believe that we're going to be all right. I've got to just play basketball. ↗

— Allen Iverson

#being #being done #believe #done #feel