"No doubt that anarchist ideas are frightening to those in power. People in power can tolerate liberal ideas. They can tolerate ideas that call for reforms, but they cannot tolerate the idea that there will be no state, no central authority. So it is very important for them to ridicule the idea of anarchism to create this impression of anarchism as violent and chaotic. It is useful for them."

-- Howard Zinn

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“Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review.”
“Work is one of the best educators of practical character.”
“Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.”
“I wanted to write about the time when science became modern, around the 1950s. Right after physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, science started being so politicized and used as such a political weapon. When my father, who is a scientist, tells me about those years, I get a competing portrait of people who were expected to behave normally and be decent respectable members of society and who were also allowed this freedom to think in big and expansive ways. Now, when you think about people who work in labs, they're allowed to be socially inept in a very fundamental way.”
“I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.”

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“Even as we seek to be meek and to avoid contention, we must not compromise or dilute our commitment to the truths we understand. We must not surrender our positions or our values. The gospel of Jesus Christ and the covenants we have made inevitably cast us as combatants in the eternal contest between truth and error. there is no middle ground in that contest.”
“It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined.”
“The only thing harder than leaving show business is coming back.”

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