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- The avoidance of taxes is the only pursuit that carries any reward.
- John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946)
- Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding.
- Ralph Nader (1934 - ), The Pacific Sun, March 21, 1981
- Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- ...all life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and (there is) no cause to value one above the other."
- H.P. Lovecraft
- War is the biggest ego trip of all time.
- Molly Wiest
- Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
- Dwight Eisenhower, April 16, 1953
- When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, and all other systems that traffic in future rewards rather than in present realities.
- Tom Robbins (1936 - )
- Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman?
Hell no!" - Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005)
- War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
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