"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay.”
“Therefore I say: know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril. When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and of yourself, you are certain in every battle to be in peril.”
“Paperwork is the embalming fluid of bureaucracy, maintaining an appearance of life where none exists.”
“When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.”
“Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers.”
“What's brilliant about the United States system of government is separation of power. Not only the executive, legislative, judicial branches, but also the independence of the military from civilians, an independent media and press, an independent central bank.”
“When you are threatened, when your life is threatened, you have to fight back.”

Source : "“Exiles From the Future”: An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.
“The atmosphere is different in Congress after September 11. Terrorism is no longer an abstract issue, but a real, tangible threat.”

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