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“There is great disorder under heaven, the situation is excellent.”
-- Mao
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‎"Now the chessboard is being reorganized and it is a direct clash between the Atlanticist West and all these Eurasian powers ... and these things start to be playing now..."
-- Pepe Escobar
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"If NATO needs me, I’m there."
-- Professor Juan Cole
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"As soon as one gets involved in the machinery of politics one gets involved in its demonic futilities and in the great current that sweeps everything toward no one knows what."
-- Thomas Merton
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"The problem is not corruption or greed, the problem is the system that pushes you to be corrupt. The solution is not found in the slogan 'Main Street, not Wall Street,' but to change the system in which Main Street cannot function without Wall Street."
-- Slavoj Zizek - 'The Violent Silence of a New Beginning'
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"The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn't just a fiction, it's a part of our physical body, and our soul in space and is inside us, like the teeth in our mouth. It can't forever be violated with impunity."
-- Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
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The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
-- Lord Acton
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"Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace."
-- Rod Serling
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"No country takes on this kind of debt with the expectation of ever paying it back."
-- Spinone
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‎"Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out."
-- Boris Johnson
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"Obama will be remembered as the Pet Rock of the U.S. oligarchic class."
-- Phil Rockstroh
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"A society that made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today"
-- Christopher Lasch
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I think we can all agree that Washington is like the inflamed colon after 20 years without even a flake of Raisin Bran. What it needs is a Ron Paul enema — let’s let it run through the system, clean everything out — You wouldn’t get an enema every day — but we need one right now."
-- Ralph Nader
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"I revolt, therefore we are"
-- Albert Camus
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‎"I think both parties want to lose the election"
-- John C. Dvorak
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Posted: Mon - December 5, 2011 at 06:54          

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