"The primary method by which governments increase their control is by creating fear."

-- Charles Eisenstein

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“It doesn't matter what a majority of Americans say. George W.Bush is going to do what he thinks he must do. And history may be tough on him in the next ten years but I guess he rationalizes that in fifty or 100 years they'll bless us because there will be - maybe not in his lifetime, but someday-a democratic Iraq emulating the United States in its liberalism, in its fair-mindedness, and that democracy will spread to Iran and Syria, and that whole part of the Middle East will be happy, and terrorism will be gone, and the Israelis will be flourishing, and the oil will flow. That's his vision.”

Source : Source: progressive.org
“she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.”

Source : Alan Hollinghurst (2011). “The Stranger's Child”, p.6, Pan Macmillan
“If we do not save the environment, then whatever we do in civil rights will be of no meaning, because then we will have the equality of extinction.”
“Such fire was not by water to be drown'd, Nor he his nature changed by changing ground. [Lat., Ne spegner puo per star nell'acqua il foco; Ne puo stato mutar per mutar loco.]”
“There is a time in a boyâ€™s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.”
“Some of them are funny. Some of them are ridiculous. Some of them are annoying. I don't want to be one of those people that complains about the rumours. I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what it is; I tend not to do that.”
“The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.”
“Reading is good, action is better.”

Source : Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.285, Crown Business

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