Opinion: Random sentences from reader mail

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‘It brutalizes the occupying armed forces, who cannot admit to themselves that the people they repress by force are human beings like themselves.’

‘I know not the original source, but I heard it just this week as we were lamenting the behavior of adolescence.’

‘Why not just say ‘my fee’?’

‘A good compromise might be to revise the City Charter or pass an ordinance mandating that the City Council and the mayor each hire an attorney.’

‘Although it is true that various Islamic governments did wage wars of conquest, they often left their non-Christian minorities in a better state than they had been under the Western European and Byzantine Christian powers.’

‘When it was time to work on next-generation systems, Sony and Microsoft were playing the same old ‘better graphics, more media’’ tune, whereas Nintendo decided to be experimental as far as actual game play is concerned.’

‘Niall Ferguson makes sense until he starts looking for rational leadership in Iran.’

‘When pharmaceutical companies find a way to make a profit from marijuana, it will become legal.’

What does it all mean? What else are people saying? Find out in Letters.