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-Alvin Toffler
"If you are not turned on to politics, politics will turn on you" -Ralph Nader
"History is a myth we all agree to believe."
-Napoleon
"The very ink
with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice."
-Mark Twain
"Every time history repeats itself,
the price goes up."
-Unknown
- "When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."
- - George Washington Carver
- "A witty saying proves nothing."
- - Voltaire
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired
signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending
money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its
scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in
any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross
of iron.
--Dwight Eisenhower 1953 speech
This war will not be over by the next commercial break
--US spokesperson talking to reporters during the Gulf War
I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was
that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those
people.
--Dan Quayle
"It is one of the phenomena of modern times that revolutions are not favored unless they are led by people who are not revolutionaries at heart" -Howard Zinn