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I felt that if we, as the Met, were not intervening once one person starts digging up Parliament Square, then someone else is going to join in and you have a spiral.

- Michael Todd

(Regan has been amused, in the intervening years, to watch editors who rolled their eyes at Limbaugh scramble to try to duplicate his success.) What people respond to in this culture is loud and brash and pointed and sometimes vulgar -- that`s what gets people`s attention, on TV and radio and in books, ... Shades-of-gray books are very difficult to sell.

- Judith Regan

We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.

- Andrew Patel