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The major source of photochemical smog - petroleum-fueled vehicles - can be replaced by emission-free electric vehicles.

Barry Commoner

We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.

Dave Barry

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

Denis Diderot

The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.

Lincoln Steffens

I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.

Ted Turner

I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.

Ted Williams

What a rush it was to plunge into the bin of official decision and cast a ballot in favor of FUN.

Wavy Gravy

I'm lucky. I've worked with extremely talented women who won't sacrifice comedy to make themselves look better.

Heather Burns

I like writing strong women, because as a straight male, there's nothing more attractive to me than a strong girl.

Jay Baruchel

Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.

Peter Mullan

I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.

Benjamin Spock

Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course of action but justify it even more tenaciously. Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justifica...

Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts

It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading various Christian writings.

Christianizing the Roman Empire:

Feather Presents are those things life brings that can't be held in the hand, or tied with bows, but are presents none-the-less

The Crazy Floridian and the Birds or The Search for Feather Presents

She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.

Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

He was a stylist, not a thinker. He spent time trying to say things in as complicated a way as possible.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

The most important thing for morale was to maintain a united front among the officers.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

That the regime was willing to hit itts chief political constituency in the pocket was a clear sign of desperation.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

Foreign policy often involved nothing more than the decision whom to make war upon.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

Who set Rome on fire? The man we must admire. For killing his wife, and taking the life of mother and brother and so many others, while plucking his damnable lyre.

The Flames of Rome

The highways of American cities are an enduring testimony to our acceptance of ugliness

Books That Have Made History: Books That Can Change Your Life