"But even the Four Horsemen of Kidporn, Dope Dealers, Mafia and Terrorists don't worry me as much as totalitarian governments. It's been a long century, and we've had enough of them."

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Source : "So, people, we have a fight on our hands" by Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. July 1, 1994.

Bruce Sterling

#Dope Quotes #Government Quotes #Long Quotes

“Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is to say, of a state of progress and change. Nothing that lives is, or can be rigidly perfect; part of it is decaying, part nascent.”
“Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.”
“Love your enemy. But don't forget he is not your friend”
“We hail the return of the day of thy birth, Fair Columbia! washed by the waves of two oceans Where men from the farthest dominions of earth Rear altars to Freedom, and pay their devotions; Where our fathers in fight, nobly strove for the Right, Struck down their fierce foemen or put them to flight; Through the long lapse of ages, that so there might be An asylum for all in the Land of the Free.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”
“I'm itching to see Usher & Shakira work their magic. And of course, Blake is so amazing! It was tough, but I went on my gut which was Adam.”
“No matter how sad we might be, the universe is still planning our happiness.”
“Turkish-American relations are based on very strong foundations. Currently, we have a war in the region, which could not be prevented, unfortunately. We hope it is a short war ... with minimum casualties.”

Source : "Powell backs post-Djindjic reforms", www.cnn.com. April 2, 2003.
“Villains are meant to be hated.”

Source : "Author Revealed". Simonand & Schuster Interview, www.simonandschuster.com.

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