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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they…
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In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are…
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's…
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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If you don't like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may…
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I see 'Ahab's Wife' as offering an alternative vision to
— Moby
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His [Elijah] heart was beginning to give signs of alarm; he was enjoying being at this woman's side. Love could be a…
— Paulo Coelho
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Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals today. There…
— Noam Chomsky
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Ahab cast a covetous eye at Naboth's vineyard, David a lustful eye at Bathsheba. The eye is the pulse of the soul;…
— Thomas Adams
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As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, “All mortal greatness is but disease.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
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Sleep and I do not have a good relationship. We have never been good friends. I am constantly chasing sleep and then…
— Amy Poehler
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Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself;…
— Herman Melville
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Captain Ahab drowned, he reminded himself; it was the trimmer, Ishmael, who survived.
— Salman Rushdie
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And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain.
— Bible
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So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself…
— Bible
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Captain Ahab: I do not sleep, I die.
— Moby Dick
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Imagine having Ahab for a father, and Jezebel for a mother.Only God can help your future.
— Wordfaith3
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