Quotes LXXII




"It's definitely an empirical morning!"
-- Janie
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Kick ass! If somebody tries to stop the march to democracy, we will seek them out and kill them! We must be tougher than hell! ... We have a better way. Stay strong! Stay the course! Kill them! Be confident! Prevail! We are going to wipe them out! We are not blinking!'"
-- George W. Bush, Leader of the Free World, Link
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"This is the great war of our times. It is going to take forty years."
--George W. Bush
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"I can remember when I was Secretary the last time, they were digging graves in my front lawn, the Berrigan brothers, and spilling blood on the Pentagon steps and stuff like that. President Johnson had buses around the White House because they didn't have those concrete revetments in those days..."
-- Donald Rumsfeld
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"...This President's pretty much a victim of success. We haven't had an attack in five years. The perception of the threat is so low in this society that it's not surprising that the behavior pattern reflects a low threat assessment. The same thing's in Europe, there's a low threat perception. The correction for that, I suppose, is an attack."
-- Rumsfeld
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"I predict to you, that you will, step by step, be sucked into a bottomless military and political quagmire."
-- President DeGaulle to President Kennedy, May 1961. Link
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'He does not know whether he can tell the truth. He says he can tell only what he knows.''
-- Indigenous Canadian hunter asked to swear on the bible that he would tell the truth. Link
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"Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment"
-- Plato
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"How many 20th hijackers are there?"
-- Scott Horton
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“I have determined that you pose a security threat.”
-- DHS letter to German MIT student Wilken-Jon von Appen
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"Mein Führer! I can walk!"
-- Dr. Strangelove
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"When chickens are outlawed, only outlaws will raise chickens"
-- Stan Cox, Big Brother Close Up
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."
-- Mark Twain
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"They can't see the patterns they're weaving."
-- Donovan, "Young Girl Blues"
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"If we want things to stay as they are, everything must change."
-- Burt Lancaster in the film, The Leopard
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Knowledge can be power, but it can also be debilitating. Especially when it's met with the equivalent of "So what if I did?"
-- Jeff Wells
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"Holding back the flood, just don't do no good. You just can't unclench your teeth to howl the way you should. So you curl your lips around the taste of tears and the hollow sound that no one owns but you."
-- James McMurtry, Ruby and Carlos
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"One man with one bullet can change history. A handful can take over a country."
-- How to Seize a Country, Time Magazine, Jun 20, 1969
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"Tune in next week to see if doing nothing helped."
-- FKN Newz



Posted: Tue - June 3, 2008 at 11:42 PM            

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