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‘It’s definitely NOT fair.’

Jennifer Wagner, third-place finisher in a world championship cycling event, on a man identifying as a woman winning the event. She eventually apologized to the winner, Rachel McKinnon, for the remark but said she would work to change the rules that allow men who say they are transgender women to compete in women’s cycling events. McKinnon would not accept Wagner’s apology.

‘Impossible.’

Dr. Sam Gandy, a head trauma expert, on the likelihood that damage to former NFL tight end Aaron Hernandez’s brain did not affect his behavior. Hernandez, 27, hanged himself in a jail cell in 2017 after being convicted of murder. Hernandez had the most advanced case of “CTE”—a progressive degenerative condition commonly found in football players—on record for someone of his age.

‘I’m writing for my three sisters. They are not lawyers, they don’t live in D.C.’

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on the court’s duty to write “accessible” opinions and not ones meant only for lawyers to read. “We write for the public,” he said.

‘The rising tide of drug-impaired driving did not begin with this driver, and it will not end with him.’

Robert L. Sumwalt, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, on a report that a vehicle crash in Texas that killed 13 people on a church bus involved a driver who was under the influence of marijuana and a sedative. The report found states that have legalized marijuana have seen an increase in traffic accidents.

‘An hour into legality, and something illegal.’

Winnipeg, Manitoba, policeman Gord Spado on a ticket issued to a driver at 1:00 a.m. for “consuming cannabis” in a car the morning Canada’s new marijuana law took effect on Oct. 17.

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