Quotations To Remember

“That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn’t even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn’t even an enemy you could put your finger on.”
— Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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"This is how liberty dies -- to thunderous applause."
-- George Lucas, Revenge of the Sith

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"I know that standards have slipped in Washington in recent years, but for a lawyer, you're remarkably cavalier with any idea of justice."
-- UK MP George Galloway (to US Sen. Norm Coleman)

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"People need to be very careful about what they say just as people need to be careful about what they do."
-- Donald Rumsfeld

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"The agricultural revolution began at the wane of the last Ice Age, about 10,000 years ago, in the so-called Fertile Crescent between the Tigris and the Euphrates. This is the cradle of human civilisation whose irreplaceable relics in the Baghdad Museum were vandalised in 2003, under the indifferent eyes of American invaders whose priorities led them to protect the Ministry of Oil instead."
-- Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale

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"Go fuck yourself."
-- Dick Cheney (to Sen. Patrick Leahy)