"No chord in populism reverberates more strongly than the notion that the robust common sense of an unstained outsider is the best medicine for an ailing polity. Caligula doubtless got big cheers from the plebs when he installed his horse as proconsul."

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Source : "Obama's Speech; McCain's Palinomy" by Alexander Cockburn, www.counterpunch.org. August 30, 2008.

Alexander Cockburn

#Horse Quotes #Cheer Quotes #Medicine Quotes

“By making the start of the sequence automatic, they replace doubt and fear with comfort and routine.”
“Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.”
“I have always felt comfortable in blue jeans. I have found it interesting, however, that people also whistle at blue jeans. I have to admit that I like mine to fit. There's nothing I hate worse than baggy blue jeans.”

Source : "Interview with Isla Fisher from “Confessions of a Shopaholic”". Interview with Julie Bonner, www.alloy.com. June 24, 2009.
“In fact, an information theory that leaves out the issue of noise turns out to have no content.”

Source : Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.121, Harvard University Press
“Holiness is the habit of being of one mind with God, according as we find His mind described in Scripture. It is the habit of agreeing in God's judgment, hating what He hates, loving what He loves, and measuring everything in this world by the standard of His Word.”
“It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.”
“A candle throws its light into the darkness, in a nasty world so shines a good deed. Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.”

Source : Song: Diamonds On The Inside
“Whether they really believe in their brave new world, however, is ultimately beside the point. They're building it. And in the friction-free future, jacked into paradise, we'll have the 'liberty' of living (or rather, or buying the illusion of living), through the benevolent offices of a middleman as nearly omnipotent as god himself. Freedom? A more perfect captivity is difficult to imagine.”

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