"A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence."

-- Max Weber

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“For thogh we slepe, or wake, or rome, or ryde, Ay fleeth the tyme; it nyl no man abyde.”
“Don't worry about me," I finally said. "Really. I'm more worried about you." And even more worried about where Graves is. "Are you?" A fey smile lit his face, and I caught my breath. It was a shock to see him look so happy. "Well, then.”
“It's a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates.”

Source : Matthew McConaughey's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 2, 2014.
“I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.”
“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.”

Source : "Obama's Speech; McCain's Palinomy" by Alexander Cockburn, www.counterpunch.org. August 30, 2008.
“Faith isn't the ability to believe long and far into the misty future. It's simply taking God at His Word and taking the next step.”
“People have responded to the pictures I make as mystical things, and they somehow carry the illusion further thinking that the place is this mystical, magical place. The desert is also a very barren place, a very lonely place, a very boring, uneventful place.”
“We never cry out to God and receive a returned check stamped 'Insufficient grace.'”

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