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Alexander Cockburn has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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So much for the crusade against drugs . . . all America is actually doing is consolidating its position as the biggest…
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The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
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A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue,…
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The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.
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Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of…
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Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:
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No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.
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A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
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Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part…
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There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the…
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Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too
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They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of…
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The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.
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Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.
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The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in…
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A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast,…
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Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
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I slew him-this right hand struck the dagger to his heart. My deeds slew Christ. Alas! I slew my best beloved; I…
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I 'm weary of conjectures,-this must end 'em. Thus am I doubly armed: my death and life, My bane and antidote, are…
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