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Matt Taibbi has 108 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.
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To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic…
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Washington politicians basically view the People as a capricious and dangerous enemy, a dumb mob whose only interesting quality happens to be…
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The Congressional Record will forever show that [Obamacare] was passed in a romper room of overgrown children seemingly barely old enough to…
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There really are two Americas, one for the grifter class and one for everybody else. In everybody-else land, the world of small…
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For a country founded on the idea that rights are inalienable and inherent from birth, we’ve developed a high tolerance for conditional…
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Obsessed with success and wealth and despising failure and poverty, our society is systematically dividing the population into winners and losers, using…
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Being in the building with Sarah Palin that night is a transformative and oddly unsettling experience. It’s a little like having live…
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The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel…
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The significance of Columbus's discovery was that on a round earth, humanity is more interconnected than on a flat one. On a…
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Sniper is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism. The only…
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The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families…
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But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought Of freedom, in that hope itself possess All that the contest calls for; spirit,…
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There really are two Americas, one for the grifter class and one for everybody else. In everybody-else land, the world of small…
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Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate, For morning dreams, as poets tell, are true.
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There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root,…
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Ye country comets, that portend No war, nor prince's funeral, Shining unto no higher end Than to presage the grasses fall. .…
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The most serious problems of freedom of expression in our society today exist on our campuses. The assumption seems to be that…
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Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom. Never…
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