"As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the question of how the United States military controlled the media coverage of its long involvement there and in Afghanistan."

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Source : "The Fog Machine of War" by Chelsea Manning, www.nytimes.com. June 14, 2014.

Chelsea Manning

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“Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.”

Source : "Adventures In Gnarly Computation". www.rudyrucker.com. October 2005.
“I can remember, I think it was 1967, sitting in the First Unitarian Church in Isla Vista, Santa Barbara, and seeing Phil Levine come out on the little stage. He sat on the edge and said, "You know, sometimes it's hard not to hate my country for the way I feel, at times, but I won't let that happen." And then he read, "They Feed They Lion," this incredibly powerful, incantatory poem that was inspired in part by the burning of Detroit in 1967 and the riots that followed.”

Source : Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.
“I always thought music was more important than sexâ€”then I thought if I don't hear a concert for a year-and-a-half it doesn't bother me.”
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.”
“A purpose derived from a false premise - that a deity has ordained submission to his will - cannot merit respect. The pursuit of Enlightenment-era goals - solving our world's problems through rational discourse, rather than through religion and tradition - provides ample grounds for a purposive existence. It is not for nothing that the Enlightenment, when atheism truly began to take hold, was also known as the Age of Reason.”
“We need people interested, otherwise literally the lights turn off.”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
“If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.”
“No one thinks they're irritating. Nobody thinks they're boring. So if you're playing a character like that you have to play them as how they think of themselves.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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