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Tyranny is increasingly unsustainable in this post-cold-war era. It is doomed to failure. But it must be prodded to exit the stage with a whimper - not the bang that extremists long for.

Eskinder Nega

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I was always fighting the establishment, trying to run through brick walls.

John McEnroe

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Kids will remind you that, even though you've gone down a road 100 times, it's brand new for them - and that's healthy.

Matthew McConaughey

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From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world.

Stephen LaBerge

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I've always liked music that has a darker vein to it. I come from such a safe upbringing - very stable, classic family, everything's nice and good - I was always looking for something different.

Tove Lo

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When I was girl, you could still get certain jobs if you didn't have a diploma.

Rita Moreno

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What I really like is this salted calamari - with jalapenos on top.

Mary Gauthier

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To call New York's traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.

Dick Cavett

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I operate better with education and awareness, like I think all of us do. I don't like to be walking around in a vacuum, lost in my own thoughts. I'm much better with information.

Christian Slater

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I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy.

Bruce McCulloch

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People don't assume John Wayne shoots people and rides a horse on weekends.

Sylvia Kristel

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It is in American and Afghan interests for the U.S. to stay in Afghanistan so it doesn't turn into Iraq circa 2014, with the Taliban controlling much of the country while hosting a strong presence of ISIS and al-Qaeda as well as every other jihadist group of note.

Peter Bergen

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I forever felt that I've fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock 'n' roll and too old to be brand-new. It's hard.

Paul Westerberg

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