"It is harder, usually, to find a person who wants to walk the streets of me, to taste the teas of my country, to... immigrate, you could say."

-- Catherynne M. Valente

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“As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.”
“I've known people who had fantastic ideas, but who couldn't get the idea off the ground because they approached everything weakly. They thought that their ideas would somehow take off by themselves, or that just coming up with an idea was enough. Let me tell you something - it's not enough. It will never be enough. You have to put the idea into action. If you don't have the motivation and the enthusiasm, your great idea will simply sit on top of your desk or inside your head and go nowhere.”
“Man arose to high moral vision two thousand years before the Hebrew nation was born.”
“Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.”
“In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.”
“No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.”

Source : "New millennium, old crime: those sanctions against Iraq" by Alexander Cockburn, freepress.org. January 12, 2000.
“Our philosophy is we call it as we see it. Sometimes you agree, sometimes you don't. Robust debate is good.”
“A mind that is positive cannot be controlled. For the purposes of occult dominion, minds must therefore be rendered passive and negative in order that control may be achieved. Minds consciously working to a definite end are a power, and power can oppose power for good or for evil. The scheme for world dominion might be doomed by the recognition of this principle alone, but, as it is unfortunately unrecognized, it remains unchallenged.”

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