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1 " We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. "
― George Orwell
2 " I have not spent my time studying the problem of " race" —" race" itself is just a restatement and retrenchment of the problem. You see this from time to time when some dullard—usually believing himself white—proposes that the way forward is a grand orgy of black and white, ending only when we are all beige and thus the same " race." But a great number of " black" people already are beige. And the history of civilization is littered with dead " races" (Frankish, Italian, German, Irish) later abandoned because they no longer serve their purpose—the organization of people beneath, and beyond, the umbrella of rights. "
3 " The concept of the psychopath is, in fact, an admission of failure to solve the mystery of evil—it is merely a restatement of the mystery—and only offers an escape valve for the frustration felt by psychiatrists, social workers, and police officers, who daily encounter its force. "
― Janet Malcolm , The Journalist and the Murderer
4 " The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of the Forties and Sixties, the cultural and political desires for self-determination began to shape each other in a series of riffs on independence and identity. "
5 " It is my determination that we, as a party, continue to make that fundamental restatement of liberal values in the politics of our country. "
6 " Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious. "
