Quotes XLI


"What do we want?" "Gradual change!" "When do we want it?" "In due course!"

"Luke.. I lied, William Shatner is your Father"
-- Darth Vader
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A madman is someone is possession of all the facts.
-- John LeCarré
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Only the small secrets need to be protected. The big ones are kept secret by public incredulity.
-- Marshall McLuhan
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"There has been a cover-up of this."
-- Senator Bob Graham, Newsweek, April 30, 2003
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"What do we want?" "Gradual change!" "When do we want it?" "In due course!"
-- Parody of Fabian advocacy of slow reform over revolutionary tactics. Via Wikipedia
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"Even if it were desirable, America is not strong enough to police the world by military force. If that attempt is made, the blessings of liberty will be replaced by coercion and tyranny at home.
-- Rep. Howard Buffett (R), Senator Taft's midwestern campaign manager in 1952
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O'Tools Law:
Murphy was an Optimist
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" I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it."
-- Jack Handey
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Paper will put up with anything written on it."
-- Russian proverb
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"Harmonize, then customize"
-- Wilson Pickett
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"Banking on miracles may not sound like a solid bet to many of you, but at this point, it's really all we have left."
-- Jason Godesky
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"We actually have to do something."
-- Cindy Sheehan
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Conviction causes convicts.
-- Principa Discordia
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"The establishment of such a school is a foul, disgraceful deed. You can't mix pure and foul. They are a disease, a disaster, a devil. The Arabs are asses, and the question must be asked, why did God did not create them walking on their fours? The answer is that they need to build and wash. They have no place in our school".
-- Rabbi David Bazri in regard to the opening of a mixed Arab-Jewish school.
http://peacepalestine.blogspot.com/2006/01/racist-attacks-by-rabbis.html
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"...I suggest that this be sold not through a democratic process that would take too long and require far too much of the funds to educate the cannon fodder.. unfortunately that populates the earth, we have to take almost an elitist program so we can see beyond our swollen bellies and look to the future in timeframes and in results which are not easily understood or which can be with intellectual honesty be reduced down to some simplistic definition..."
-- David Lang Montreal International Investment Banker at the Fourth World Congress Meeting 1987
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Things will not be necessarily continuous.
The fact that they are something other than perfectly continuous
Ought not to be characterized as a pause.
There will be some things that people will see.
There will be some things that people won't see.
And life goes on.
-- Donald Rumsfeld
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"Tomorrow, World War III will begin. It will begin in the United States, and the United States will lose."
-- 5th grade student speaking to teacher on Sept 10th 2001. http://tinyurl.com/c7zx2

Posted: Sat - February 4, 2006 at 08:25 PM            

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