Quotes LXXVII



"We're all Zapruders now."
-- Kade's Korner, LINK
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My dearest Russian friends, now that everything is beginning to collapse here, will you pity us as we pitied you? God I hope not.
-- Willy M
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"Laurel and Hardy, that's John and Yoko. And we stand a better chance under that guise because all the serious people like Martin Luther King and Kennedy and Gandhi got shot."
-- John Lennon, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6eV7ZsghCs
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“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience."
-- Howard Zinn
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"Why was there such a long primary at all when the people who lost that ride end up in the front seats of the presidency?"
-- Moon of Alabama blog
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" I don't trust the government, I don't trust the banks, I don't trust the political parties, and I don't trust the IMF."
-- Gudrun Jonsdottir, LINK
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"Sometimes I get so paranoid that I think I'm out to get them."
-- J. Adam Moore
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"Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue"
-- La Rochefoucauld
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"If there is any fighting in Europe to be done, I should like to see the Bolsheviks and the Nazis doing it."
-- British Prime Minister and director of Lothian's Rhodes Trust Stanley Baldwin, 1936 LINK
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“Our blight is ideologies — they are the long-expected Antichrist!”
-- Carl Jung
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"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state."
-- Noam Chomsky
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"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of what he was never reasoned into."
-- Jonathan Swift
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"It is hard to be deluded when you don’t claim to know anything."
-- Father Stephan
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"We do not have a housing crisis! We are suffering from yet another attack of hype, fear and hysteria... IndyMac is a buy."
-- John Dessauer
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"Hint for the U.S.: There are no "bad guys" and "good guys" in Iraq. Everyone has dirty hands. It makes no sense for you, nor is it going to improve anything in Iraq, to side with one bad guy against another, just because you're so confused that you can't differentiate between friend and foe. Just please remember that. The trick is to reach a settlement where all the "bad guys" are satisified and agree to behave as "good guys" again. Otherwise, just forget about it."
-- Zeyed, Healing Iraq Blog, http://healingiraq.blogspot.com/
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: You liberate a city by destroying it. Words are used to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests."
-- Gore Vidal
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"Time to take out the trash. How in the world did Obama come out of the cesspool of Chicago politics so clean?"
-- Daily Kos poster ActivatedbyBush
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“The judgment sought against the defendant is one of corporate death...The life of a corporation is, indeed, less than that of the humblest citizen.”
-- People v. North River Sugar Refining Co. Link
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Not too long ago a young policeman pulled me over. I tried to pass a long line of traffic by driving along the tramway. He said: "Hello, Viktor Vladimirovich. So what's going to happen to the dollar?"

KP: What did you tell him?

Gerashchenko: "Nothing is going to happen," I said. "There will still be 100 cents to the dollar as always."
-- Viktor Gerashchenko



Posted: Thu - December 11, 2008 at 10:14 PM            

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