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Once you start to provide public services that have to be run under public rules, for example child protection, then it has to go with public law. Institutions have to make a decision whether they want to do that or they don't want to do that. ↗

— Trevor Phillips

#decision #example #for example #go #institutions

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#buddy #different #english #fiction #john

Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#cheap #corn #designed #efficient #efficient way

Ever since I took to the streets when I was 17 to protest at great personal risk against the communist dictatorship, I have been a passionate democrat. ↗

— Victor Ponta

#been #communist #democrat #dictatorship #ever

I read every script from beginning to end, and I read every draft that I can. I like the show, I like the character, and I want to protect both of those things. ↗

— Victoria Pratt

#both #character #draft #end #every

Nato allies have been looking at various missile-defence options for some time. Nato itself is developing protections for our deployed troops. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#been #deployed #developing #itself #looking

At the end of the day, man, you can't protect yourself from a haymaker that's coming in toward your face if you don't see it coming. ↗

— Busta Rhymes

#day #end #end of the day #face #man

I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and I took it up to the third floor to the school newspaper office that was written and edited by juniors and seniors. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#edited #floor #grade #i #juniors

I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others. ↗

— Gavin Rossdale

#also #always #i #i always #i think

I try to gauge whether a girl likes me before I make a move. I would write a page-long note to a girl.If she wrote a whole page back, I knew she liked me, too. If she wrote back like two words, then I figured I'd move on. ↗

— Devon Werkheiser

#before #figured #gauge #girl #i