"Could there possibly have been an incumbent more easy to knock-off than George W. Bush? A real-life opposition party would have been insulted to be matched with a such an unworthy and frail rival. The Democrats, by contrast, got their lights punched out."

-- Marc Cooper

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“We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in their power to resist external pressures, in their rational appraisal and then rejection of situational temptations. We invest human nature with God-like qualities, with moral and rational faculties that make us both just and wise. We simplify the complexity of human experience by erecting a seemingly impermeable boundary between Good and Evil.”
“I try to be like a sponge when I'm around other actors, picking things up about the way they work and how they do things.”
“The first step to success in any business is to ask your customers what they want.”
“There is no sin so profound, no despondency so low, no misery so abject, but the love of Christ is deeper.”
“We travel through the dark of the moon wheneverâ€¦ we face the loss of that form which has given our life a structure and sense of identityâ€¦ What has been is no longer, and what is to come has not yet appeared.”
“This elaborate Golden Dawn system became part of Crowley's own inner world ... He carried it further than even the Golden Dawn principals had envisaged. I know of nothing within the Order documentary that even hints at the kind of visionary and spiritual experience that Crowley managed to get out of it.”
“At the end of the day it's just food, isn't it? Just food.”
“Taking responsibility as a co-creator with God presupposes a basic understanding of how creation works.”

Source : Carl Johan Calleman (2004). “The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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