Quotes XXXVIII



“If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s probably not a cow.”
-- Prof. Timothy D. Swindle
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"Well, my favourite percussionist is Muhammad Ali."
-- Captain Beefheart
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The Useful Idiots -- what will happen to them now that the veil is torn away? Actually nothing. American Idol beckons.
-- Anonymous
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"I knew I was breaking the law by sitting on the White House sidewalk without a permit. But, I was sitting there to call attention to the murderers who live and work there."
-- Cindy Sheehan
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"Americans are afraid of everything which causes too much emotion and tragedy. That is the problem between East and West."
-- Konstantin Kuzminsky
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‘What demon is annoying you and leading you to slander?
So a book displeases you; who is forcing you to read it?’
-- Boileau
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"Sure they could teach us critical thinking skills.
but then they'd have to kill us."
--Anonymous, Rigorous Intuition Blog
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"When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school
It's a wonder I can think at all
Although my lack of education hasn't hurt me none
I can read the writing on the wall."
-- Paul Simon
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"Working America and the middle class have been sacrificed on the high altar of the Republican Moloch of Free Trade."
--Pat Buchanan
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...the seeds for the reimposition of a monarchy like system was assured when three of Jefferson's most desired amendments were not enacted (no standing army in peacetime, no corporations, and no gov borrowing)
-- filboy
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"Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all commerce and industry"
-- President James A. Garfield
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"You have complete control of someone if you have every detail of his sex life and fantasy life on record."
--L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
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Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.
Greed, in all of its forms -- greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge -- has marked the upward surge of mankind.
-- Gordon Gecko, Wall Street
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Can you smell money?!?!?!''
--Jack Abramoff
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"On March 23, 2006, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System will cease publication of the M3 monetary aggregate. The Board will also cease publishing the following components: large time deposits, repurchase agreements (RPs), and Eurodollars. ..."
-- Federal Reserve announcement
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“Conservative: a statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.”
-- Ambrose Bierce
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And he will separate them one from another,
as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
He will place the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
-- Matthew 25: 32-33
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"Iraq and Saddam Hussein are the next target. We're starting now to build him up as the big villain. It will take some time, but in the end, there's no doubt it'll work."
-- Victor Ostrovsky quoting a Mossad intel operative in the book "By Way of Deception"
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Posted: Mon - November 21, 2005 at 10:19 PM            

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