Quotes XXXV


Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
-- Donald Rumsfeld

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"May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in."
-- Mother Teresa
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“It happened that a fire broke out backstage in a theater. The clown came out to inform the public. They thought it was just a jest and applauded. He repeated his warning, they shouted even louder. So I think the world will come to an end amid general applause from all the wits, who believe that it is a joke.”
--Soren Kierkegaard
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"This thing, the wheels are coming off it."
-- Gen. Barry McCaffrey, after returning from an inspection of Iraq, 08/12/2005
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"Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God."
-- Thomas Jefferson
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"They have unlocked the spirit of war, and it could be unwilling to return to its casket until it has traversed the world"
-- George Monbiot
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Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
-- Donald Rumsfeld
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"I literally could kill someone and get away with it"
-- Patricia Cornwell
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"I lost my entire family from an impulsive act by a stupid drunk. To me, his name might as well be George W. Bush."
-- RM, message to Cindy Sheehan
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Truth transcends facts.
-- Carlos, poster on Occult Investigator Blog
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"It's a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'Try to be a little Kinder'"
-- Aldous Huxley
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Walking on water wasn't built in a day
--Jack Kerouac, after psilocybin
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"The following sentence is false."
"The preceding sentence is true."
-- Atar
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A pessimist would say: "It can't get any worse than this."
As an optimist, I see a lot of room for "getting worse"
-- Yaromir
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... my destiny is not carved in granite... it's written with a stick in dry sand... on a stormy day....
-- Trausti
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Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
-- Ozzy Osbourne
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I think it has become necessary to take another look at the purpose and operations of our Central Intelligence Agency – CIA….
For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times policy-making arm of the government. This has led to trouble and may have compounded our difficulties in several explosive areas.
We have grown up as a nation, respected for our free institutions and for our ability to maintain a free and open society. There is something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic position and I feel that we need to correct it.
-- President Truman, creator of the CIA
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“Gentlemen, when two separate events occur simultaneously pertaining to the same object of inquiry, we must always pay strict attention.”
-- Agent Dale Cooper, Twin Peaks
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"From the perspective of Jews, it is the most important public relations act
ever committed in our favor."
-- Ehud Sprinzak, Hebrew Univeristy, referring to 9-11
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"People are fungible"
-- Donald Rumsfeld
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The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. They are the standing army, and the militia, jailors, constables, posse comitatus, etc. In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgment or of the moral sense; but they put themselves on a level with wood and earth and stones; and wooden men can perhaps be manufactured that will serve the purpose as well.
-- Henry David Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience"

Posted: Mon - August 15, 2005 at 10:56 AM            

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