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Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy.

~Charles Krauthammer

Topics: Bad Bad Guy Bomb Captured Case Choice Circumstances Could Easy Evil Except First Guy He Information Innocent Life Possesses Refuses Save Stake Ticking Time Time Bomb Torture Two You

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Nuclear doctrine consists of thinking the unthinkable. It involves making threats and promising retaliation that is cruel and destructive beyond imagining. But it has its purpose: to prevent war in the first place.

~Charles Krauthammer

Topics: Beyond Consists Cruel Destructive Doctrine First First Place Imagining Involves Making Nuclear Place Prevent Promising Purpose Retaliation Thinking Threats Unthinkable War

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I have a horror of the blank page. I simply cannot write on a blank page or screen. Because once I do, I start to fix it, and I never get past the first sentence.

~Charles Krauthammer

Topics: Because Blank Blank Page Cannot First Fix Get Horror Never Once Page Past Screen Sentence Simply Start Write

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The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.

~Charles Kuralt

Topics: About Any Baseball Book Books Changed First Interested Life My Life Single Think Way Were

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We try to entertain first, advertise second. When you find out that it's sponsored, we've already won you over. We try to make it obvious that the brand has made it better.

~Charles Lincoln Neal

Topics: Advertise Better Brand Entertain Find First Made Make Obvious Out Over Second Sponsored Try Won You

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To be absolutely alone for the first time in the cockpit of a plane hundreds of feet above the ground is an experience never to be forgotten.

~Charles Lindbergh

Topics: Above Absolutely Alone Experience Feet First First Time Forgotten Ground Hundreds Never Plane Time

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In the tropical and subtropical regions, endemic malaria takes first place almost everywhere among the causes of morbidity and mortality, and it constitutes the principal obstacle to the acclimatization of Europeans in these regions.

~Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran

Topics: Almost Among Causes Europeans Everywhere First First Place Malaria Mortality Obstacle Place Principal Regions Takes Tropical

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When I won my way to the international science fair, I didn't want to embarrass myself. It was the first time I was going to be away from home, the first time taking an airplane. I went to the local library, checked out every single etiquette book, and I read those books like I was uncovering some sort of treasure.

~Charles M. Blow

Topics: Airplane Away Book Books Checked Embarrass Etiquette Every Fair First First Time Going Home International Library Like Local Myself Out Read Science Single Some Sort Taking Those Time Treasure Want Way Won

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The first memory I have in the world is of death and tears. That is how I would mark the beginning of my life: the way people mark the end of one. My family had gathered at Papa Joe's house because Mam' Grace was slipping away, only I didn't register it that way. For some reason I thought that it was her birthday.

~Charles M. Blow

Topics: Away Because Beginning Birthday Death End Family First Gathered Grace Had Her House How Joe Life Mark Memory My Life Only Papa People Reason Register Slipping Some Tears Thought Way World Would

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The Homestead plant, taken as a whole, is complete and finished in every department. There is nothing of any consequence to be desired. It is the first time I have ever been connected with any works that I could say it is finished and complete and to my entire satisfaction.

~Charles M. Schwab

Topics: Any Been Complete Connected Consequence Could Department Desired Entire Ever Every Finished First First Time Homestead Nothing Plant Satisfaction Say Taken Time Whole Works

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