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Torture is such a slippery slope as soon as you allow a society or

Torture is such a slippery slope as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons. – Iain Banks

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A lot of what the Culture is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens. – Iain Banks

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Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesnt matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state. – Iain Banks

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Technology
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My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is. – Iain Banks

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Every year, some 65,000 high school students – many of them star students and leaders in their communities – are unable to go to college or get a good job because they have no legal status. – Gary Locke

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Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue. – P. J. ORourke

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My job is to interpret the law based on how the legislature and the court has done it and then, of course, to use our system of justice to develop some new legal tools and new concepts. – Bill Scott

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You cant solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause. – Theresa May

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Weve not had one Republican president in 34 years balance the budget. You cant trust right-wing Republicans with your money. You ought to hire somebody who has balanced a budget. Im much more conservative with money than George Bush is. – Howard Dean

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Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them. – Alain de Botton

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Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present. – Robert Conklin

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