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For every fatal shooting, there are about 3 non-fatal shootings. Folks, this is unacceptable in America. — George W. Bush
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets… — John Dewey
Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est" ("They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier"). — David Foster Wallace
There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers... — John Steinbeck
Non-violence means dialogue, using our language, the human language. Dialogue means compromise; respecting each other’s rights; in the spirit of reconciliation there is a real… — Dalai Lama
Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college. — Jennifer Weiner
Consider non your superior, whatever their rank or station in life. Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge. Be careful with your money. Hold… — Christopher Paolini
If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat. — Douglas Adams
The cowardly belief that a person must stay in one place is too reminiscent of the unquestioning resignation of animals, beasts of burden stupefied by… — Isabelle Eberhardt
How do you get off a non-stop flight? — Steven Wright
Tolerance obviously requires a non-contentious manner of relating toward one another’s differences. But tolerance does not require abandoning one’s standards or one’s opinions on political… — Dallin H. Oaks
The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers — William S. Burroughs
And - of course! - the Non-people. The whole freaking world was full of people who were bound to tell you they weren't qualified to… — Tom Wolfe
In the things that really matter--our covenants, the commandments, and following the prophet--we need to be completely united. In the non-essentials, we have our agency… — Sheri L. Dew
Because neither she nor Port had ever lived a life of any kind of regularity, they had both made the fatal error of coming hazily… — Paul Bowles
He awoke, opened his eye. The room meant very little to him; he was too deeply immersed in the non-being from which he had just… — Paul Bowles
In fact, "atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist." We… — Sam Harris
The art of reading consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting non essentials. — Adolf Hitler
Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy--a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does… — Ayn Rand
Non- Euclidean calculus and quantum physics are enough to stretch any brain; and when one mixes them with folklore, and tries to trace a strange… — H P Lovecraft
The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized… — Samuel P. Huntington
At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to… — Arthur Conan Doyle
If I were asked to define the Hindu creed, I should simply say: Search after truth through non-violent means. A man may not believe in… — Mahatma Gandhi
The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence. — Nikola Tesla
I only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only one which makes… — Anais Nin

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