Quotes LVIII


"The only history that matters is biography"
-- Pyotr Todorovsky

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The truth will cause your heart to seize
-- Anti-Flag
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"The only history that matters is biography"
-- Pyotr Todorovsky
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"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."
-- Frederick Bastiat
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"You and I know that this continuous putting pins in rattlesnakes finally got this country bitten."
-- President Hoover
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If the situation is one of victory but the sovereign has issued orders not to engage, the general may decide to fight. If the situation is such that he cannot win, but the sovereign has issued orders to engage, he need not do so. (10.18)
-- Sun Tzu
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"The most important element of a free society... is the rejection of the initiation of violence."
-- Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)
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"It's class warfare, my class is winning, but they shouldn't be."
-- Warren Buffett
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"Where do these people come from and why do I keep incarnating with them?"
-- Nina
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"The fact is, most questions worth raising have no answer..."
-- George Jonas
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"Oh yes, I can surely tell you what I learned...Nothing in this world is as you are being told."
-- Dennis Diehl quoting CIA acquaintance. Link
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"... pressure on Israel was all for show, ... You know, we have to show that we're doing something. You really shouldn't worry about it."
-- Elliot Abrams to Jewish Republicans as reported here.
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"Let them hate, as long as they fear."
-- Caligula
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I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.
-- Levi Strauss
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"The center doesn't have to hold if everything's connected."
-- Anne Herbert
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"One man's bait is another man's can of worms.
-- Jeff Wells
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"I saw a man with a machine gun. The cops pushed a guy on the ground and started searching him."
-- Arsalan Heydarian, Virginia Tech Student. Link
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It was very, very saddening. I was crying. I couldn't reach my family because they turn - like the phones were off, everything was off.
-- Karina Porushkevich, Virginia Tech Student
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"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country."
-- Edward Bernays
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"FOX is a legitimate military target, a propaganda machine for the Reich"
-- MC
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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
--Robert A. Heinlein
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"... researchers ought to try to find out if shorter persons are more creative than
taller ones because they have more space above their heads."
-- Robert Genn
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"Computers are going to replace hieroglyphics text as communication. Computers will be THE drug of the future... Then we'll have computer addiction and computer abuse,"
-- Timothy Leary, http://www.counterpunch.org/bageant05162007.html

Posted: Thu - May 24, 2007 at 12:39 PM            

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