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"assault weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully-automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons --anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun-- can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons." »Josh Sugarmann
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"The only real power comes out of a long rifle." »Joseph Stalin
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"Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand." »Mark Twain
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"We don't need more assault rifles on our streets right now." »William J. Bennett
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"The National rifle Association are the gun nuts of the world." »Cecil Andrus
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"A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking." »John M. Keynes
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"No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back." »Meg Cabot
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"To become oneself, with all one's strength. Difficult. A bomb, a speech, a rifle shot -- and the world can look a different place. And then where is this self" »Christa Wolf
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"A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority." »Brendan Francis
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"Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope." »P. J. O'Rourke
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"A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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"The fights I fought... cost a lot --the fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in Congress. The NRA is the reason the Republicans control the House." »William Jefferson Clinton
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"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." »James Nicoll
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"[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand." »Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, chapter 10 (1916)
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"Billy Hey I'm trying to score points with the teacher today. DON'T SCREW IT UP. 3rd Grader I dare you to touch her boobs. Billy Touch her boobs That's assault brotha...... Ya double dare me" »Billy Madison
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"In the 1940s a survey listed the top seven discipline problems in public schools talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in the halls, getting out of turn in line, wearing improper clothes, not putting paper in wastebaskets. A 1980s survey lists these top seven drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, assault. (Arson, gang warfare and venereal disease are also-rans.)" »George Will
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