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Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#brotherly #destruction #excuse #insight #into

Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality. ↗

— George William Russell

#endure #human #immortality #infused #into

The noun phrase straw man, now used as a compound adjective as in 'straw-man device, technique or issue,' was popularized in American culture by 'The Wizard of Oz.' ↗

— William Safire

#american #american culture #compound #culture #device

Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl Harbor that led to our prompt, official declaration of war, while they characterize as unwise wars of choice the wars in Korea, Vietnam and the current war in Iraq. ↗

— William Safire

#attack #characterize #choice #critics #current

Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media. ↗

— William Safire

#choir #erudition #longer #media #off

But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools. ↗

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

#artists #brushes #cameras #categories #created

Early in my career I was accused of being overconfident and even cocky, but I really was confident that I had done the training and didn't see any other reason to say otherwise. ↗

— Alberto Salazar

#any #being #career #cocky #confident

My father used to wear the same pants for like a week. ↗

— Adam Sandler

#like #pants #same #used #wear

My grandmother used to embarrass me more, when she would pick me up from school wearing a big fuzzy hat. I didn't like that. ↗

— Adam Sandler

#embarrass #fuzzy #grandmother #hat #i

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#almost #analyze #any #argument #statistics