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"It is the contention of this observer that few homicides due to shooting could be avoided merely if a firearm were not immediately present, and that the offender would select some other weapon to achieve the same destructive goal." »Marvin E. Wolfgang
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"Quotation, n The act of repeating erroneously the words of another." »Ambrose Bierce
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"Quoting the act of repeating erroneously the words of another." »Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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"In the e-age, e-wind is any e-push (forwarding, highlighting or repeating) given to your content by others." »Chase LeBlanc
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"If you stop reading and learning, you will start repeating yourself; that's why, old people always repeat the same things!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." »George W. Bush, http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/05/20050524-3.html
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"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity." »Arthur Schopenhauer
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"The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive and discoverers." »Jean Piaget
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"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence." »Charles Austin Beard
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"It is suggested that, in domestic violence at least, the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is of far less importance to the outcome than the passion generated in the attacker. The man who has lost control will cause serious injuries in many cases, quite irrespective of the weapon he uses and regardless of the certainty of detection and punishment." »Colin Greenwood
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"Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century." »Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun-Times, November 5, 2001
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"No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction. Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before." »Colin Greenwood
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"If we can not trust a freeman with his right to keep and bear arms, then how can we trust him with the right to vote. Surely the right of a freeman to vote has a much greater effect on our collective lives than does any individual's firearm. If one argues that the effect of any one freeman's vote is minimal, then why allow it in the first place To be armed is to secure one's right to representation." »Thomas Mincher
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"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and
or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State." »Joseph Goebbels
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