Quotes LXXXIII



I guess we had our own 'Color Revolution', didn't we?
-- StarmanSkye
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"Grab an issue flag, run to the head of the pack, get some followers, jump off a cliff."
-- Hugh Manatee
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"Oh and one more thing, you aren't going to like what comes after America."
-- Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing, 2006
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“My conscience is clean, I gave you a shot. I know you probably won’t get this but maybe it’ll help you in the next life. We don’t change anything by drawing new lines on a map. In that way two or three sides can all be at war and still actually serve the same master. Aid this uprising, topple that one, they owe allegiance to no one but themselves. For as far back as the history books go, this has been the game. The way to defeat it is in mind, and in the heart– in the end, I serve no master. That is why I am a threat.”
-- Dionysus, Fallen Nation by James Curcio, pg.236
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"Well, I warned him."
--Jack Nicholson to reporters discussing Heath Ledger's acceptance of the Joker role.
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"Revolutionary movements do not spread by contamination but by resonance."
-- The Invisible Committee
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"Bankrupt bankers funded the Obama campaign and now they're drawing public money."
--Dmitry Orlov, Watch
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"I would imagine the operation in Afghanistan will last only a few months."
-- Brzezinski. 2001
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"We’re not getting dumber; we’ve just got more air time."
-- Oliver Miller
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"I’m just generally disinclined to believe that Americans can be as corrupt as Russians."
-- Matt Taibbi tries to wiggle out of the repercussions of publishing a "conspiracy theory".
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“A large segment of the American population has the need to cultivate the idea of American innocence and virtue – which requires an opposite pole of evil.”
-- George Kennan, 1988
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“Life has become better, life has become more fun!”
-- Attributed to Josef Stalin, Late 1930's
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""The masses, the masses, the masses. Whatever are we to do with them?" laughed a political adviser friend, only half-jokingly. True, we've always been such a herd, always been given to self-imposed blindness of the whole. But now we are blindfolded. There is a difference."
-- Joe Bageant
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"The more you drive, the less intelligent you are."
-- Miller, from Repo Man
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“There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”
-- Warren Buffet, New York Times, November 26, 2006
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“We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally.”
-- Attributed to Nguen Co Thach, Vietnamese Foreign Minister.

"The best thing about an enemy is that he tells the truth about you."
-- Leo Franks
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"It's pretty hard to compete with a company that can print money."
-- Antiwar Scott Horton
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“When wireless is fully applied, the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts."
-- Nicola Tesla
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“A futurist is someone who can take a look at a strip-mall and experience instinctual fear.”
-- Mac Tonnies
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"We can't get away from Iran. Many people - Kissinger, David Rockefeller, Howard Baker, John McCloy, Gerald Ford - all are after Jimmy to bring the shah to the United States, but Jimmy says it's been too long, and anti-American and anti-shah sentiments have escalated so that he doesn't want to. Jimmy said he explained to all of them that the Iranians might kidnap our Americans who are still there."
-- Rossalyn Carter, http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=8635
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“If, after the inauguration, you find a Cy Vance as Secretary of State and Zbigniew Brzezinski as head of National Security, then I would say we failed. And I’d quit.”
-- Hamilton Jordan, Carter Chief of Staff. He did not quit.
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