"Itâ€™s pretty ironic that the so-called â€˜least advancedâ€™ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction."

-- Noam Chomsky

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“As a singer, the biggest joy I have are the arrangements.”
“You can't catch the big fish by skimming the surface.”
“My ego only needs a good rhythm section”
“Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.”
“You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.”
“The government could either raise $100 by selling allowances and then give that amount in cash to particular businesses and individuals, or it could simply give $100 worth of allowances to those businesses and individuals, who could immediately and easily transform the allowances into cash through the secondary market.”
“For the Tintin books were my emotional universe. To read them felt quite simply like being loved: in advance and by an entire world of pure possibility, my future. But to write to the author was to reach out for the lover. Even today, the power of reading one remains visceral: each book acts as a form of transportation, not just to the emotional landscape of this first literary love affair but to very specific memories.”
“Israelis must be encouraged to defeat the Palestinians.”

Source : "Daniel Pipes, Peacemaker?". Mother Jones, May 2003.

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