"You know, it's very clear, as one looks back on history again of the Cold War that, following the crisis in Cuba, following the Khrushchev - beating down of Jack Kennedy in Vienna, that President Kennedy believed that we had to join the battle for the Third World, and the next crisis that developed in that regards was Vietnam."

-- Alexander Haig

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“John was at his most relaxed with Ringo, who had him in stitches with his jokes.”
“There shall come a day when Birds shall be free... :) and humans will see...”
“What does it mean to be a used white wife, a mother, a tragic girl writing poems? Sandra Simonds gets into these messy words and then tears them apart. Sometimes with the words of others. And sometimes with poems made from scratch. They aren't all bad, these words. But they aren't all good either. And that is where Mother was a Tragic Girl gets its power. You will at moments be laughing but then you will also at moments just as much be crying. If Antigone was alive and decided to write some poems about the nuclear family, she would write them like Sandra Simonds. These are tough.”
“Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.”
“I one hundred percent recognize that comedy is a more narcissistic profession and that I cannot directly improve people's lives the way I could if I had stayed in the policy world. But the trade-off is that I'm happier doing jokes.”
“Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.”

Source : Ignazio Silone (1963). “The School for Dictators”, New York : Atheneum
“I had a similar year back in 1984 when I felt like I couldn't lose.”
“The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access”

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