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The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of…
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The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate…
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The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving…
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Far from being reluctantly propelled into hostilities by popular war fever, leaders incite that fever in order to gather support for their…
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The conservative goal has been the Third Worldization of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but growing moneyed…
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No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of whole regions,…
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The first law of the market is to make the largest possible profit from other people's labor or go out of business.…
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Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness.
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In societies that worship money and success, the losers become objects of scorn. Those who work the hardest for the least are…
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Only by establishing military supremacy were the European and North American colonizers able to eliminate the crafts and industries of Third World…
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Capital requires protection, as do the institutions through which it operates. As capital expands its operations, the state that is associated with…
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A huge national security state has developed in the United States since World War II. Its function is to buttress anticommunist, procapitalist…
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My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
— Iain Banks
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My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think…
— Martha Beck
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I invite the entire spectrum, shall we call it, of feeling. Because that is my greatest resource as a film actor. I…
— Nicolas Cage
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I dreamed impossible dreams. And the dreams turned out beyond anything I could possibly imagine. You know, from my point of view,…
— Hugh Hefner
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My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern,…
— Brent Scowcroft
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My point here, young couples, is that baby-having is extremely serious business, and you probably don't have the vaguest idea what you're…
— Dave Barry
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There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has…
— Stephen King
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Try stuff. I also used to believe that it's better to be smart than lucky because if you're smart you can out-think…
— Guy Kawasaki
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One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is…
— Jacques Monod
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My point of view is that science is essentially private, whereas the almost universal counter point of view, explicitly stated in many…
— Percy Williams Bridgman
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What I want to express is a feeling-various emotions that I am experiencing at the time-whether it is anger or hope or…
— Rei Kawakubo
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You make it all sound so simple. Run your guts out...collapse at the finish, throw up, that makes a good runner. Sounds…
— Keith Brantly
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