Quotes LVII



"Time wounds all heels"
-- John Lennon
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Bad dreams are good, in the great plan."
-- Joni Mitchell's grandson
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"Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper."
-- Albert Einstein
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"Bush deserves our highest compassion, but he also needs to be put in a safe place where he can do no further damage."
-- Paul Levy
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"The greatest contraceptive one can have in the developing world is the knowledge that your children will live."
-- Julius Nyerere, Pres. of Tanzania 1964-1985
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They are turning our atmosphere into theirs in order to genetically deselect against us. Aliens are terraforming our earth to make it more hospitable to them. They are calling it “Global Warming.” They say it is their third world. I am not sure who says this. I lost track. I lose track of a lot of things these days.
-- Tim Boucher
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“No, I don’t think so. We tried.”
Rupert Murdoch, asked if News Corp. had managed to shape the agenda on the war in Iraq.
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"I see in the near future, a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people, until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the republic destroyed."
-- Abraham Lincoln
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"Your countrymen have been murdered and the more you delve into it the more it looks as though they were murdered by our government, who used it as an excuse to murder other people thousands of miles away. If you ridicule others who have sincere doubts and who know factual information that directly contradicts the official report and who want explanations from those who hold the keys to our government, and have motive, means, and opportunity to pull off a 9/11, but you are too lazy or fearful, or... to check into the facts yourself, what does that make you?”
-- Lt. Col. Shelton F. Lankford
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“The anti-imperialist struggle and sexual emancipation go hand-in-hand, fucking and shooting are the same thing!”
-- Andreas Baader http://www.postworldindustries.com/library_text/library_bios/bio_baader.html
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"I have amassed enough evidence to convince me the universe is a fractal larva grown in a five-dimension fluid information medium. I think the larval universe is growing rapidly towards adulthood and understanding, so nothing scares me much, except for giant spiders and normal sized moths."
-- Grant Morrison
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"I've unleashed the Bush family on America."
-- George H. W. Bush, Dukakis debate, 1988
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"Try halting your sub vocal speech. Try to achieve even ten seconds of inner silence. You will encounter an organism that forces you to talk. That organism is the word. In the beginning was the word. In the beginning of what exactly?”
-- William Burroughs
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"They wait, all of them from high to low, and they prophesy crisis, which is to say they pray for it. They know the power of their weapon, and our fear of it, and even a small crisis is better than none. But what they especially dream of is a profound crisis, that anguished crisis of the spirit which tears us to pieces every thirty or forty years, one that will soften our hearts to the tall fierce strangers who stand outside the door and cry salvation. They are certain the door will open; they have no doubts at all that a time will come when the prevalence of devils will persuade us that freedom is best defended by surrendering it altogether.

"And perhaps they are right. Perhaps we don't like freedom any more. Perhaps we have listened so long to the concatenation from the swamp that all unknowingly we have passed the point of no return, and now drift closer and closer to the heart of that thick, nadiral stupor in which men no longer want to be free. The cats have killed all the birds, the swimming pools everywhere overflow, and across the street at the old Bella Union – che bella that union was in her time, che bellissima! – the bar is closing down. The midnight air stutters with the magic word, and men with pinched white faces steal through the street. They have long memories and the shortest tempers you ever saw, and they fondle guns instead of girls. Yet I do not dread them as much as I fear the others – the silent ones, the contented, the alienated, the frightened, the acquiescent."
--Dalton Trumbo





Posted: Fri - April 6, 2007 at 01:51 PM            

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