"The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan."

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Jose Saramago

#Easter Quotes #Military Quotes #Uzbekistan Quotes

“People think we have coasted the last four years. We fought, we had a lot of battles. We've always had to battle.”
“Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up hyper-regulatory bodies preventing you from doing anything yourself, while simultaneously endowing lavish pseudo-agencies to hand out leaflets listing a 1-800 number you can dial to order more leaflets.”
“The requirement of conspicuous wastefulness is... present as a constraining norm selectively shaping and sustaining our sense of what is beautiful.”

Source : Thorstein Veblen (1993). “A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism”, p.71, M.E. Sharpe
“We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them...”
“I always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It's my own paranoia.”
“So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”

Source : The Phantom Tollbooth (p. 247)
“Why do we not hear the truth? Because we do not speak it.”
“Perhaps it is God's will to lead the people of South Africa through defeat and humiliation to a better future and a brighter day.”

Source : 1902 Speech at the Vereeniging peace talks, 31 May.

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