"Never experiencing the life of the mind scars entire families for generations."

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Source : Joe Bageant (2008). “Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War”, p.13, Broadway Books

Joe Bageant

#Mind Quotes #Generations Quotes #Scar Quotes

“And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now.”

Source : "World leaders praise voter courage", www.cnn.com. January 30, 2005.
“If you start getting yourself into just doing stuff for the money, even if it's a desperate situation, I just firmly believe that if you stick it out through that, then something right will come down the path.”

Source : Source: substreammagazine.com
“All policies allowed in war and love.”
“It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.”
“You can't just turn on when something happens, you have to be turned on all the time. Then things happen.”
“This (scanning project) is our chance to one-up the Greeks! It is really possible with the technology of today, not tomorrow. We can provide all the works of humankind to all the people of the world. It will be an achievement remembered for all time, like putting a man on the moon.”
“Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.”

Source : Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. Luft (1995). “Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses”, p.284, University of Chicago Press
“On May 3rd, THE MOMENT is going to be my moment.”

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