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Quotation of the Day for February 18, 2016"To leave that metaphor, let us grieve at what twitter has become. A stalking ground for the sanctimoniously self-righteous who love to second-guess, to leap to conclusions and be offended - worse, to be offended on behalf of others they do not even know. It's as nasty and unwholesome a characteristic as can be imagined. It doesn't matter whether they think they're defending women, men, transgender people, Muslims, humanists ... the ghastliness is absolutely the same. It makes sensible people want to take an absolutely opposite point of view. I've heard people shriek their secularism in such a way as to make me want instantly to become an evangelical Christian." - Stephen Fry, actor, writer, and TV host, on why he is leaving Twitter. [http://www.stephenfry.com/2016/02/peedinthepool/] Submitted by: Terry Labach Feb. 17, 2016  |
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