"Here's your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute - often without knowing who or even where the enemy of the week is."

-- Charley Reese

#Government Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Enemy Quotes

“Aâ€”risâ€”ta?â€ Degan asked, sounding horse. â€œWhat is it?â€ â€œA rat bit me,â€ she said, once again shocked by her own rasping voice. â€œJasper does that ifâ€”â€ Gaunt coughed and hacked. After a moment, he spoke again. â€œIf he thinks youâ€™re dead or too weak to fight.â€ â€œJasper?â€ â€œI call him that, but Iâ€™ve also named the stones in my cell.â€ â€œI only counted mine,â€ Arista said. â€œTwo hundred and thirty-four,â€ Degan replied instantly. â€œI have two hundred and twenty-eight.â€ â€œDid you count the cracked ones as two?â€ â€œNo.”
“Just because something has tubes doesn't mean it's the best. I mean, tubes are obviously good, but the circuit of this thing is designed well and it sounds good.”
“One of the most beautiful things about 'Game of Thrones' is it's told from so many different points of view, and these characters can convince you that what they're doing is right. But they're only showing you a bit of the picture, and when you see it from another character's point of view you may switch allegiances.”
“We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”

Source : Jamake Highwater (1997). “The Mythology of Transgression: Homosexuality as Metaphor”, Oxford University Press, USA
“The point of the spiritual revolution is not to become a good Buddhist, but to become a wise and compassionate human being, to awaken from our life of complacency and ignorance and to be a buddha.”

Source : Noah Levine (2009). “Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries”, p.2, Harper Collins
“Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow, Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle, Psychology says: but first it has to be night, so Biology says: the body-clocks are stopped all over town and History says: here are the blankets, layer on layer, down and down.”

Source : Albert Goldbarth (1991). “Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology : Poems”, p.118, University of Georgia Press
“Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.”
“There was a look of woe on his face that was almost comical. Raids, bullets, criminals...no problem. A missing duster? Crisis.”

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