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1 " A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded gun on your coffee table- There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about. "
― Garrison Keillor
2 " Marika could feel herself cocking the trigger of a loaded gun and pointing it at herself, because the truth could be too shocking a revelation, something that would shake their lives to the core... but lies were just a dead-end alleyway that offered no way out. "
― Mirella Muffarotto , Be You
3 " Not everyone born free and equal, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man. Me? I won't stomach them for a minute. "
― Ray Bradbury , Fahrenheit 451
4 " Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet. "
― Terence McKenna
5 " Remember a Florida judge instructing a jury to focus only on the moment when George Zimmerman and Trayvon Marton interacted, thus transforming a seventeen-year-old, unarmed kid into a big, scary black guy, while the grown man who stalked him through the neighborhood with a loaded gun becomes a victim. "
― Jesmyn Ward
6 " No," Foyle roared. " Let them hear this. Let them hear everything." " You're insane, man. You've handed a loaded gun to children." " Stop treating them like children and they'll stop behaving like children. Who the hell are you to play monitor?" " What are you talking about?" " Stop treating them like children. Explain the loaded gun to them. Bring it all out into the open." Foyle laughed savagely. " I've ended the last star-chamber conference in the world. I've blown that last secret wide open. No more secrets from now on.... No more telling the children what's best for them to know.... Let 'em all grow up. It's about "
7 " A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of a well-read man? "
