Quotes LXX



“You know,” he says, “since the takeover, we’ve been trying to enter the brains of Bush and Rice, to figure out their mentality. We can only conclude that having Hamas in control serves their overall strategy, because their policy was so crazy otherwise.”
-- Khalid Jaberi, a commander with Fatah’s al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades,"> Link
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"Iran-Contra! We should have jailed all those guys for ever back then, and we wouldn't be where we are right now - because it's the same guys now, the same 20 guys!"
-- Kris Kristofferson
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... "we need the reverse radio, the radio that when it's off, it's recording. I got that idea from the Bush administration."
-- Neil Young
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"For the first time since this Greek tragedy began, I am now really frightened."
-- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, International Business Editor, Telegraph UK, Link
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“I urged him to bomb.”
-- Hillary’s Choice by Gail Sheehy, p. 345 Dec 9,1999
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That's the left wing of the CIA debating the right wing of the CIA."
-- Timothy Leary, discussing CNN's "Crossfire," ca. 1992
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"'The most fearful war of the century is coming soon. After the war, will come world-peace--the highest development of the race in this cycle."
-- 1908, The Journal of American History, Vol.2, No.4
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"Don't just think outside the box: throw the box away, and don't ever pick up another one."
-- Arthur Silber
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“Now all of you must adjust your brains”
-- Karl Heinz Stockhausen
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“Hope and fear chase each other’s tails,”
-- Buddhist saying
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"What doesn't kill us makes us...different."
-- Jeff Wells
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"The best thing is not to be born. But who is as lucky as that? To whom does it happen? Not to one among millions and millions of people."
-- Brother Theodore
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"One can construct a political speech, an assertive journalistic polemic, a program for organizing society, a philosophical system, so that in appearance it is smooth, well structured, and yet it is built upon a mistake, a lie; and the hidden element, the distortion, will not immediately become visible. And a speech, or a journalistic essay, or a program in rebuttal, or a different philosophical structure can be counterposed to the first—and it will seem just as well constructed and as smooth, and everything will seem to fit. And therefore one has faith in them—yet one has no faith."
-- Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Link
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... Sin is understood by the Fathers as the destruction of the unity of the human race, as fragmentation and division. Babel, the place where languages were confused, the place of separation, is seen to be an expression of what sin fundamentally is.
-- Benedict XVI, Spe Slavi, pg 37
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"When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him."
-- Anton Szandor LaVey
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"Personally...my car is old enough to have its own driver's license."
-- Wendy McElroy, Link
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"Because I love shoes, and who doesn't want to know what kind of shoes Dr. Kissinger wears?"
-- Meghan McCain, Link
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"Eventually the system will reach a point where the social cue is 'integration'--where the universal dependence of all moments on all other moments makes the talk of causality obsolete. It is idle to search for what might have been a cause within a monolithic society."
-- Theodor Adorno
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The torture never stops.
The torture.. the torture..
The torture never stops.

Flies all green and buzzin',
in this dungeon of despair.
Who are all those people,
that he's locked away down there?
Are they crazy?
Are they sainted?
Are they zeroes,
someone painted?

And it's never been explained,
since it first it was created.
But a dungeon, like a sin,
requires not but lockin' in,
of everything that's ever been.
Look at her.
Look at him.

That's what's the deal we're dealin' in.
That's what's the deal we're dealin' in.
That's what's the deal we're dealin' in.
That's what's the deal we're dealin' in.
-- Frank Zappa



Posted: Sun - April 6, 2008 at 03:09 PM            

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