"The funniest thing is when somebody says "Look I've no idea who you are but my friend said you are on a show and I just wanted to introduce myself" you know that they are lying! Those people can just get out of my way."

-- Matthew Perry

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“We in Himalaya are facing a crisis of survival due to the suicidal activities being carried out in the name of developmentâ€¦ The monstrous Tehri dam is a symbol of thisâ€¦ There is need for a new and long-term policy to protect the dying Himalaya. I do not want to see the death of the most sacred river of the world-theÂ Ganga- for short-term economic gains.”
“I could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing.”
“Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.”
“The State, completely in its genesis, essentially and almost completely during the first stages of its existence, is a social institution, forced by a victorious group of men on a defeated group, with the sole purpose of regulating the dominion of the victorious group over the vanquished, and securing itself against revolt from within and attacks from abroad. Teleologically, this dominion had no other purpose than the economic exploitation of the vanquished by the victors.”

Source : Franz Oppenheimer (1923). “The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically”, p.15, Transaction Publishers
“Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination. The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war. Only great and general battles can produce great results. Blood is the price of victory.”
“I know I'm breaking a taboo by using the term antiwhite racism, but I do so intentionally, because it's the reality some of our fellow citizens live with, and remaining quiet about it only aggravates their trauma.”
“It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality.”
“We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom. Where a beam is taken away a new one must at once be put there, and for this the rest of the ship is used as support. In this way, by using the old beams and driftwood the ship can be shaped entirely anew, but only by gradual reconstruction.”

Source : Otto Neurath, Marie Neurath, Robert Sonné Cohen (1973). “Empiricism and sociology”

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