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Leonard Cohen

"Comic books, movies, radio programmes centered their entertainment around the fact of torture. With the clearest of consciences, with a patriotic intensity, children dreamed, talked, acted orgies of physical abuse. Imaginations were released to wander on a reconnaissance mission from Cavalry to Dachau. European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies."

-- Leonard Cohen

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“Even a fool can deceive a man - if he be a bigger fool than himself.”
“One of the paradoxes of our time is that the War on Terror has served mainly to reinforce a collective belief that maintaining the right amount of fear and suspicion will earn one safety. Fear is promoted by the government as a kind of policy. Fear is accepted, even among the best-educated people in this country, even among the professors with whom I work, as a kind of intelligence. And inspiring fear in others is often seen as neighborly and kindly, instead of being regarded as what my cousin recognized it for - a violence.”

Source : "No-man’s-land". www.believermag.com. February, 2008.
“Our national security is at risk when we rely on foreign oil to keep our economy moving forward.”
“Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.”
“When the time for decision arrives, the time for preparation is past.”

Source : Thomas S. Monson (1988). “Live the Good Life”, Shadow Mountain
“Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.”
“I'm a very intermediate sax player, but now that Rob Lowe is on my show, I had to cop to him. Like, 'Dude your ridiculous fake sax playing [in St. Elmo's Fire] inspired me to pick up a horn.'”
“Small things affects small minds.”

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