"Slowly but surely, the U.S. military is being converted into a global oil-protection service."

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Source : Michael Klare (2007). “Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum”, p.7, Macmillan

Michael Klare

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“I think yoga is like anything else, it's a workout in the sense you are going to get what you put into it.”

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“It's important for people of color to link up with issues around globalization, food security, health, the environment.”
“I try and eat really healthy when I'm home, but I certainly don't eat worms and snakes.”
“The extension of power offered by a pony, the ease and speed of movement, the tapping of unsuspected courage, the satisfaction of collaboration with another creature and of controlling it in order to improve the collaboration, the joy of fussing over it - of loving it - these, from the age of about eight to sixteen were the most completely realised delights of my life.”
“In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go on getting blamed until they're eighty, but shouldn't take it personally.”
“Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences.”
“He Looked and smelt like Autumn's very brother, his face being sunburnt to wheat-colour, his eyes blue as corn-flowers, his sleeves and leggings dyed with fruit-stains, his hands clammy with the sweet juice of apples, his hat sprinkled with pips, and everywhere about him the sweet atmosphere of cider which at its first return each season has such an indescribable fascination for those who have been born and bred among the orchards.”
“I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.”

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