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You have to wait ten days to buy a gun in LA. I can't stay mad that long.

—Emo Philips

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Everybody is talking about gun control. Got to control the guns. Fuck that. . . . I think we need some bullet control. I think every bullet should cost five thousand dollars. Five thousand dollars for a bullet. Know why? 'Cause if a bullet cost five thousand dollars . . . people would think before they shot someone. "Man, I would blow your fucking head off, if I could afford it. I'm gonna get me a second job, start saving up, and you a dead man.

—Chris Rock

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What do I think I'll most remember about the [August 2003] blackout? I guess it's the . . . wonderment of our leaders and the media that somehow there was no violence, that in nine hours of darkness we didn't kill each other. . . . Do we really . . . deserve a gold star for not allowing a momentary power outage to instantly propel us toward cannibalism? What a night of people pulling together: "Hey, that guy helped direct traffic through an intersection instead of crushing my skull with a brick. He's a saint!

—Jon Stewart

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When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

—Oscar Wilde

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[Bill] Clinton said [on ordering the bombing of civilian targets in Somalia], "When people kill us, they should be killed in greater numbers." Then, with his face reddening, his voice rising, and his fist pounding his thigh, he . . . [said], "I believe in killing people who try to hurt you. And I can't believe we're being pushed around by these two-bit pricks.

—George Stephanopoulos

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Violence stinks no matter which side of it you're on. But now and then there's nothing left to do but hit the other person over the head with a frying pan.

—Tom Robbins

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Why are sex and violence always linked? I'm afraid they'll blur together in people's minds — sexandviolence — until we can't tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, "The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.

—Dick Cavett

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When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

—Joyce Carol Oates

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If you have a gun, you can go out and shoot one, two, three, five people. But if you have an ideology and stick to it, thinking it is the absolute truth, you can kill millions.

—Thích Nhất Hạnh

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Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives: he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing.

—Joseph de Maistre

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We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.

—Harriet Tubman

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I'm used to talking to him all the time, about the most meaningless stuff. To have him gone feels like a loss, an absence haunting me every day. Without him, there's just the empty space that used to be filled with laughter and friendship and comfort. Can you really blame me for finding it so hard to let go?

—Abby McDonald in Getting Over Garrett Delaney

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Life isn't always about logic and reasons—sometimes you just have to close your eyes and jump. Particularly when it comes to relationships.

—Julie James in Just the Sexiest Man Alive

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Don't go wishing for what you know nothing about.

—Marthe Jocelyn in Folly

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The things that go wrong often make the best memories.

—Gretchen Rubin in The Happiness Project

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