"The modern wars are also omnipresent in our electronic media - to be cynical about it, we now have 24 hours of non-stop bloodshed available to us. The internet and real-time media reporting were integrated into daily life in Iraq."

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Dave Abrams

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“Some allies are more dangerous than enemies.”

Source : George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.412, Bantam
“Winston Churchill used to say that we, Americans, try every other option before we finally do the right thing. After everything else is exhausted we eventually do the right thing and I think that's true for Congress as well. And it's important for Americans to remember that politics has always been messy.”
“I'm all for sharing music, but when people can download a whole record and pay nothing for it and then they share it with 100,000 other people, it's breaking down the whole business.”
“If form follows function, as we know it does in this Universe, then consciousness will adapt to whatever form it requires in order to function. Hopefully, it will also develop its fundamental function; what that is may be debatable within many schools of thought, but it is indisputable that evolved thinking recognizes the universality of Life.”
“Let me tell you what is coming.... Your fathers and husbands, your sons and brothers, will be herded at the point of the bayonet... You may, after the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and of thousands of lives, as a bare possibility, win Southern independence...but I doubt it.”

Source : "Sam Houston". Book by James L. Haley, p. 397, 2004.
“Herbert Hoover once ran on the slogan, 'Two cars in every garage'. Apparently, the Republican candidate this year is running on the slogan, 'Two families in every garage'.”
“Better rooms better furniture, better objects d'art can only be created for a society interested in living - not existing.”
“Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm.”

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