"The massive, frustrated energies of a mainly young, disillusioned electorate that has long since abandoned the idea that we all have a duty to vote. This is like being told you have a duty to buy a new car, but you have to choose immediately between a Ford and a Chevy."

-- Hunter S. Thompson

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“ethics is a bit like culture: the less one has, the more one flaunts it ...”

Source : Corinne Maier (2007). “Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay”, p.33, Vintage
“Great doubt will eventually lead to great awakening.”
“Just like a single cell, the character of our lives is determined not by our genes but by our responses to the environmental signals that”

Source : Bruce H. Lipton (2015). “The Biology of Belief 10th Anniversary Edition: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles”, p.12, Hay House, Inc
“Thinking you've had depression makes about as much sense as thinking you've been run over by a bus. Trust me - you know when you've got depression.”
“I'm a better polemicist in prose.”
“Relying on luck, however, does not constitute a policy.”

Source : David Galula (2006). “Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice”, p.47, Greenwood Publishing Group
“Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because no one can ever be efficient enough, just as no one can ever be virtuous enough. And this new sense of sin only contributes further to the enervation of leisure, for the rich as well as the poor. The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved.”

Source : "Art and Culture: Critical Essays". Book by Clement Greenberg, pp. 31-32: "The Plight of Culture" (1953), 1961.
“The Republican party must break with its long-established instinct for caution and make a bold stand for first principles of freedom and constitutional limitations on government - from full repeal of Obamacare to rolling back multitrillion-dollar deficits. This is not so much a reproach of past Republican conduct as it is a recognition of new opportunities.”

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