Quotes LXI



"Target achieved so far: 75% right leg broken, left leg broken, right hand defective. All I need to do now is wreck the left hand and then 100% of my extremities will be out of order."
-- Dimitry Shostakovich
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"it is much easier for us to imagine the end of the world than a small change in the political system."
-- Slavoj Zizek
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“We’re one bomb away from getting rid of that obnoxious [FISA] court,”
-- David Addington, Cheney Chief of Staff, Link
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"Pop culture used to be like LSD – different, eye-opening and reasonably dangerous. It’s now like crack – isolating, wasteful and with no redeeming qualities whatsoever"
-- Peter Saville, 50 Manifestos, Link
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15:06 a group of around 100 people armed only with the peer-reviewed science have now reached the BAA headquarters accompanied by many riot police.
-- News ticker: http://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/ticker/
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"Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do."
-- Rudi Guiliani, 1994 speech
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"But I was number one - so thanks for cheating!"
-- Mitt Romney, Iowa Straw Poll
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"God loves you, and I love you. And you can count on both of us as a powerful message that people who wonder about their future can hear."
-- George Bush, Los Angeles, California, Mar. 3, 2004
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"This is how we will create a North American consciousness and a true North American Community. It will be forged in the heat of conflict, not through a rational discussion, as painful as that may be. It really cannot happen any other way."
-- Bruce Stokes, CFR Senior Fellow, speaking at the "Toward a North American Community?" conference, June 11, 2002
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"All men are created equal; they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights; among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
-- Ho Chi Minh, 1945, Link
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"When you cross over that line of darkness, it's hard to come back. You lose your soul. You can do your best to justify it, but . . . you can't go back to that dark a place without it changing you."
-- Former CIA Officer, Link
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"Only the dead have seen the end of war"
-- Plato
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Posted: Wed - September 5, 2007 at 12:27 AM            

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