"Corruption is knowing when something is not being done, knowing when the American people are being left unprotected and when you make a decision not to do something to protect the American people And you effectively allow 9/11 to occur. That is the ultimate form of government corruption-dereliction of duty. That's subject in the military to prosecution, to court martial. Frankly, if not treason."

-- Robert Wright

#Military Quotes #Government Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“He looked gravely at the king. "It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself. But no matter, Your Majesty. You are revealed at last." The king looked down at his nakedness and back at the captain. "Was that a joke?" he asked.”
“Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.”
“Do not look at life's long sorrow; see how small each moment's pain.”

Source : Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.21
“Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.”
“The last few weeks, it was as if someone had taken his life to pieces and let him see the way it worked.”
“A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.”

Source : "Course in General Linguistics" by Ferdinand de Saussure, edited by Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye, translated by Wade Baskin, New York : Philosophical Library, (p. 120), 1959.
“The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.”
“Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to interest it intelligently in the past, then all their historical learning is valueless except in so far as it educates themselves.”

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