"I served in all commissioned ranks from second lieutenant to major general. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for big business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism."

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Source : "War Is a Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.

Smedley Butler

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“We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.”
“I'm blessed to have great friends, and there are a lot of men in my life who've been more than just friends.”
“It has been hard, I know, my daughters, but one word alone wipes out all of the hardships: love.”
“When a hunger pain happens, that's your bodies way of saying it's too late, you're a fat storing machine now. The key and all trainers know the secret is that you should always take portable snacks with you and try to feed yourself every couple of hours.”

Source : Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. May 25, 2008.
“Belief is as necessary to the soul as pleasures are necessary to the body.”

Source : Elsa Schiaparelli (1954). “Shocking Life”
“We are no longer anchored here through the illusions. The Earth itself is transforming to allow us to be unearthed and to make our way differently within the universal community.”
“If a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should never have occasion to converse more with mankind, never more need their good opinion or good word, it were then no great matter (speaking as to the concernments of this world), if a man spent his reputation all at once, and ventured it at one throw; but if he be to continue in the world, and would have the advantage of conversation while he is in it, let him make use of truth and sincerity in all his words and actions; for nothing but this will last and hold out to the end.”
“I've got quite a varied iTunes, and I like to raid people's CD collections and take on their music.”

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