"If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent."

-- Edward S. Herman

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“The justification and the purpose of freedom of speech is not to indulge those who want to speak their minds. It is to prevent error and discover truth. There may be other ways of detecting error and discovering truth than that of free discussion, but so far we have not found them.”
“My Brain and My Heart are my Temples. My true Religion is Kindness.”
“The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.”
“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.”
“Vic pointed at him, two finger-guns of approval. â€œI like a man who knows the value of words, doesnâ€™t spend â€™em too cheap.â€ Ranulf nodded. â€œThat is the manner in which I roll.”
“I donâ€™t know what Iâ€™m doing in the next five minutes and she has the next ten years figured out. Iâ€™ll worry about making it out of ninth grade alive. Then Iâ€™ll think about a career path.”
“To him who has thought, or done, or suffered much, the level days of his childhood seem at an immeasureable distance, far off as the age of chivalry, or as the line of Sesostris.”

Source : Thomas Babington Macaulay, Thomas Noon Talfourd, James Stephen (1854). “Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous: Critical and miscellaneous writings”, p.102
“Jeff Beck is compelled by his inner artistic drive to keep evolving the instrument. He'll use the whammy bar with the volume knob and the tone control all at the same time - creating harmonics that no human being should be able to hit.”

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