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“Conservatives understand Halloween, liberals only understand Christmas. If you want to control a population, don't give it social services, give it a scary adversary.”

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There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob…

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Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as…

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The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.

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The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion,…

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Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.

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“I believe in everything; nothing is sacred. I believe in nothing; everything is sacred. Ha Ha Ho Ho Hee Hee.”

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A sense of humor...is superior to any religion so far devised.

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“Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as…

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“The glue that holds the natural world together appears to be a harmonious balance of opposites: day and night, light and dark, winter and…

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Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical…

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“religion is a paramount contributor to human misery. It is not merely the opium of the masses, it is the cyanide.”

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She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its…

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Inanimate objects are sometimes parties to litigation. A ship has a legal personality, a fiction found useful for maritime purposes. The corporation sole -…

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There were various aspects of Sun Tzu's approach that appealed to Ho Chi Minh: a) to learn to understand both the enemy and yourself,…

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Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.

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If an adversary didn't target our power plants but they did target the core routers, the backbones that tie our internet connections together, entire…

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It's like I'm married to the silencer, Until I file for divorce and release my ex-calibers. Do art with your arteries, place that for…

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Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's capacity for…

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Obama is hardly the first president to seek rapprochement with our adversaries and reconciliation with our enemies, of course. But his determination to make…

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It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.

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“The most courageous act in politics is to try to understand your opponent.”

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My adversary is the world of finance.

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Often GOP political strategy seems like the human wave theory of the Chinese military translated to politics. Where Beijing uses masses of soldiers to…

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Our ability to fall in love requires enough comfort with our masculinity to join it with someone's femininity and feel enhanced. .. . If…

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