Quotes XLIV


"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater."
-- Frank Zappa

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"Wait, you actually sit there and think?"
-- Via online forum
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Let's say our lives are a wheel. Well, I've decided to take more spokes of that wheel, that's all.
-- Roger Kellaway
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"One has to multiply; thoughts to the point where there aren't enough policeman to control them."
-- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.”
– Erich Fromm
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"No one knows who invented water, but you can bet it wasn’t the fish."
-- unknown, but used here.
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"Some circumstantial evidence is very strong; as when you find a trout in the milk."
-- Henry David Thoreau
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"It is always better to say right out what you think without trying to prove anything much: for all our proofs are only variations of our opinions, and the contrary-minded listen neither to one nor the other."
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Did he think Lee Harvey Oswald fired the gun that killed Kennedy?"

"Absolutely not," Connally said. "I do not, for one second, believe the conclusions of the Warren Commission."

"So why not speak out?"

"Because I love this country and we needed closure at the time. I will never speak out publicly about what I believe."
-- John Connally, quoted by Doug Thompson
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"I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket."
-- General Smedley Butler
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Balfour: We are probably fools not to find a reason for declaring war on Germany before she builds too many ships and takes away our trade.

White: If you wish to compete with German trade, work harder.

Balfour: That would mean lowering our standard of living. Perhaps it would be simpler for us to have a war... Is it a question of right or wrong? Maybe it is just a question of keeping our supremacy.
-- Allan Nevins, Henry White, Thirty Years of American Diplomacy
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"Well, George, I go in looking for prisoners, but I spend all my time discovering the government has been moving drugs around the world..."
-- Ross Perot to George H.W. Bush
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When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.
-- Dresden James
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"A disturbing new study finds that studies are disturbing"
-- Ellen DeGeneres
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"In America, half the population doesn't read the
paper. Clearly, they are the intelligent half."
--Gore Vidal
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"Remember, the children must be murdered on the site since it is their site specific murders which insure that the money laundering scheme comes to fruition."
-- Erik Moebius, Link
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"What would you think of a man who not only kept an arsenal in his home, but was collecting at enormous financial sacrifice a second arsenal to protect the first one? What would you say if this man so frightened his neighbors that they in turn were collecting weapons to protect themselves from him? What if this man spent ten times as much money on his expensive weapons as he did on the education of his children? What if one of his children criticized his hobby and he called that child a traitor and a bum and disowned him? And he took another child who obeyed him faithfully and armed that child and sent it out into the world to attack neighbors? What would you say about a man who introduces poisons into the water he drinks and the air he breathes? What if this man not only is feuding with the people on his block but involves himself in the quarrels of others in distant parts of the city and even in the suburbs? Such a man would clearly be a paranoid schizophrenic... with homicidal tendencies."
--Robert Anton Wilson, found it here .
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..."Do you not think an angel rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm?''
-- G.W. Bush, Inaugural Address, Januray 20, 2000.
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Q: Do you believe this, that the war in Iraq and the rise of terrorism are signs of the apocalypse? And if not, why not?

G. W. BUSH: Hmmm, uhh, hah -- ummm -- I, the answer is -- I haven't really thought of it that way, heh, heh. Heh. Here's how I think of it. Ummm -- heh heh. First I've heard of that, by the way, I, ah -- uhh -- the, uhh -- I, I guess I'm more of a practical fella. Uhh. I vowed after September the 11th that I would do everything I could to protect the American people. And, uhh -- my attitude, of course, was affected by the attacks. I knew we were at a war. I knew that the enemy, obviously, had to be sophisticated, and lethal, to fly hijacked airplanes, uhh, into -- facilities that would, we would, killing thousands of people, innocent people, doin' nothing, just sittin' there goin' to work.
--GW Bush, Cleveland, Ohio, Mar. 20, 2006
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"Military Intelligence has the best whores money can buy!"
-- Linda Thompson
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"In all likelihood we will be glowing in the dark before we discover the true extent of the Clinton decade of betrayal"
-- Rick Fisher, Asian Security Fellow at the Center for Security Policy.
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20:10 When you come to a city to fight against it, then first proclaim peace toward it.
-- Deuteronomy
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"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater."
-- Frank Zappa
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"Americans voted for a second Bush administration out of fear, so fear is what they're going to have from now on."
-- Eric Haney, founding member of Delta Force
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"Those Who live by anything die from something!"
-- Gerald
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I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping.
-- George Harrison

Posted: Sun - April 2, 2006 at 04:59 PM            

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