"In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading."

-- Juan Goytisolo

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“The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.”

Source : Samuel Gompers (1990). “The Samuel Gompers Papers: The Early Years of the American Federation of Labor, 1887-90”, p.313, University of Illinois Press
“Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?”

Source : Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Elliott Coues (1987). “The expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike”, Dover Pubns
“Man is a hybrid. From a lower order we have been genetically manipulated by advanced intelligences into what we are. Now that in itself is dynamite for god's sake.”
“The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions”
“Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Al-Qaida, literally "the database", was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians.”

Source : "The struggle against terrorism cannot be won by military means" by Robin Cook, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2005.
“If it ain't broke, don't fix it.”

Source : Quoted in Wash. Post, 23 Dec. 1976.
“There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones.”
“Being charismatic doesn't make you a leader. Being a leader makes you charismatic.”

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