Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

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REBECCA SOLNIT I got a phone call saying we are from the News of the World, and we're exposing you and David Be...
REBECCA LOOS …I’m afraid of what the digital age will do to the world, to the things we think are important�...
REBECCA MCNUTT If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is...
REBECCA SOLNIT What are you doing?” Alecto asked in surprise, stepping back. Laughing brightly, she dragged him t...
REBECCA MCNUTT She dug into one of the boxes, finding clay angels she’d made in art class when she was seven year...
REBECCA MCNUTT Winters are a desolate time where all senses are wiped away, and here in Canada, this is especially ...
REBECCA MCNUTT The ones who hate me the most are the ones who don't scare me.
REBECCA MCKINSEY I feel often that we don't have the right language to talk about emotions in disasters. Everyone...
REBECCA SOLNIT I haven't heard of any cases of anti-American blog posts being censored or bloggers encountering...
REBECCA MACKINNON I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into n...
REBECCA MILLER I think for a long time it seemed like working in an art form and being a feminist meant portraying ...
REBECCA HALL Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolu...
REBECCA MACKINNON In the nineteenth century, in part because a ton of American men moved west, in part because of the ...
REBECCA TRAISTER I'm a very private person. I barely tell my friends what's going on half the time, so the id...
REBECCA HALL You scare me, Ryan Daley. Even more than those demons outside that scream for my death. How is it th...
REBECCA LIM I think this industry can be tough on everyone. You have to surround yourself with supportive people...
REBECCA FERGUSON It is time to stop debating whether the Internet is an effective tool for political expression and i...
REBECCA MACKINNON Tell me again about the girl whose hands
have no color. Whose hands are completely
white. ...
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Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

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