quotes

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Free your mind and your ass will follow.

— George Clinton

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"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country."

— Thomas Jefferson, 3rd US president (1801-1809)

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"The most important thing for us is to find Osama bin Laden. It's our number one priority, and we will not rest until we find him."

George W. Bush, September 13, 2001

"I don't know where he is. I have no idea, and I really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."

— George W. Bush, March 13, 2002

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"Actually, I see 'hearts and minds' as a tactical doctrine. To me, it means that's where we should aim first. Shoot them in the body or in the head, but just make sure you shoot them first."

— Specialist Jack Craig, US Military Police, Iraq (2003)

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"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell."

— Ed Abbey

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"Take away the right to say 'f*ck' and you take away the right to say 'F*ck the Government.'"

— Lenny Bruce

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"If economists were doctors, they would today be mired in malpractice suits."

— John Ralston Saul

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"Whoever controls the flow of Persian Gulf oil has a stranglehold not only on our economy but also on the other countries of the world as well."

— Dick Cheney (1990)

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"The real world bears little resemblance to the dreamy fantasies now fashionable about History converging to an ideal of liberal democracy that is the ultimate realization of Freedom."

— Noam Chomsky, 'Year 501' (1992)

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"The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Near East and the Far East from encroaching on each other."

— former US vice-president Dan Quayle