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“Peace dies when the framework is ripped apart. When there is no longer a place that is yours in the world. When you know no longer where your friend is to be found.”
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“Industry has annexed thereto the fairest fruits and the richest rewards.”
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“After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.”
Source : Judith Lewis Herman (1997). “Trauma and Recovery”, p.35, Basic Books
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“You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.”
Source : "Gore Vidal on the media". Interview with Paul Jay, therealnews.com. July 11, 2007.
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“A tie is like kissing your sister.”
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“As I see it, mainstream comics now speak only to the hardcore few who stayed; conversing in a weird, garbled, visual pig latin only they can understand - rendering the term 'mainstream' a hollow joke - while the true mainstream, the other 99.9% of the populace, find enjoyment elsewhere.”
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“For the last 15 years, Microsoft's master business plan seems to have been, Wait until somebody else has a hit. Then copy it.”
Source : "Bing, the Imitator, Often Goes Google One Better". www.nytimes.com. July 09, 2009.
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“There's not one thing in particular that influences my music, but I write about what I know. It's based in personal experience. That's not to say all the songs are biographical, because sometimes it's what I've seen in others' lives.”