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“I've never done an album in the same place really - I like to be able to remember where I did every single one of them .”

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Mac DeMarco

Mac DeMarco, born on April 30, 1990, is a Canadian indie rock singer and songwriter. His music style blends elements of pop, rock, and alternative music, known for his unique voice and light-hearted songs. more

“I was leaving the Belfast court, where I had been called to answer a very flimsy charge, later dismissed. You're relatively safe in such areas in the Irish community, but to go to downtown Belfast for me is dangerous. My appearance in court had been well advertised by the police. I think it was too much of a coincidence that the people who shot me were just passing by.”

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Author:Gerry Adams

“When I was growing up in the 1930s and '40s anti-Semitism was rampant. It wasn't like Nazi Germany but it was pretty serious - it was part of life.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“For example, when my father was able to buy a secondhand car in the late 1930s, and he took us to the countryside for a weekend, if we looked for a motel to stay in we had to see if it said "restricted" on it. "Restricted" meant no Jews.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“There was also a national policy, which as a child I didn't know anything about. In 1924 the first major immigration law was passed. Before that, there was an Oriental Exclusion Act, but other than that, European immigrants like my parents were generally admitted in the early years of the twentieth century. But that ended in 1924 with an immigration law that was largely directed against Jews and Italians.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“It was right after Woodrow Wilson's first serious post-World War I repression, which deported thousands of people, effectively destroyed unions and independent press, and so on. Right after that, the anti-immigration law was passed that remained in place until the 1960s.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“That was the reason why very few people fleeing the rise of fascism in Europe, especially in Germany, could get to the United States. And there were famous incidents like with the MS Saint Louis, which brought a lot of immigrants, mostly Jewish, from Europe. It reached Cuba, with people expecting to be admitted to the United States from there. But the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt wouldn't allow them in and they had to go back to Europe where many of them died in concentration camps.”

“The so-called sophisticated theologians, especially ones who are very nice, like Rowan Williams and Jonathan Sacks, you sometimes don't quite know where you are with them. You feel that when you attack them, you're attacking a wet sponge.”

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Author:Richard Dawkins

“Ideally, I'd like everybody to be secular.”

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Author:Richard Dawkins

“We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.”

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Book:Hurry up, America, & spit

Source: Hurry up, America, & spit

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