Favorite quotes
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I don’t do drugs, I am drugs. - Salvador Dali
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"The whole aim of practical politics is is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - H.L Mencken.
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President Johnson during the War on Poverty, on why so many poor whites vote for policies against their own interests:
“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”
--Lyndon B Johnson
“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”
--Lyndon B Johnson
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On Spike Milligan's gravestone - "I told you I was ill"
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"Are we so much better than chickens all of a sudden? When did this happen, that we passed chickens in goodness? Name six ways we're better than chickens. See, nobody can do it. You know why? 'Cause chickens are decent people."
-- George Carlin
-- George Carlin
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"When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatize those who let people die, not those who struggle to live."- Sarah Kendzior.
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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”- Upton Sinclair
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"If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, that's not progress. If you pull it all the way out, that's not progress. The progress comes from healing the wound that the blow made. But they haven't begun to pull the knife out... they won't even admit it's there"- Malcolm X
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Didn't see a thread for favorite speeches poems and it's not too long so I figured I would post this here.
September 17th, 2011. Baseball is returning to play for the first time after 9/11.
Former (and long-time) St. Louis Cardinals Broadcaster Jack Buck reads a poem he wrote in tribute to the events that had occured six days prior. Jack was special; one hell of writer, broadcaster, and human being.
Video of the speech in the spoiler.
Transcription below.
Makes me cry every single time.
September 17th, 2011. Baseball is returning to play for the first time after 9/11.
Former (and long-time) St. Louis Cardinals Broadcaster Jack Buck reads a poem he wrote in tribute to the events that had occured six days prior. Jack was special; one hell of writer, broadcaster, and human being.
Video of the speech in the spoiler.
Transcription below.
Makes me cry every single time.
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"I race clean until you don't."
Heard someone say it somewhere sometime, and the more I thought about it the more I liked it. Now it's my GT Sport joining comment. It seems to get the message across.
Heard someone say it somewhere sometime, and the more I thought about it the more I liked it. Now it's my GT Sport joining comment. It seems to get the message across.
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A fellow Milliganite is always a welcome sight. I grew up on his poetry and I'm always saddened by how few of my peers have even heard of him.
"At the station, I was handed a picture of Hitler, with the message "This is your enemy!". I searched the entire train, but I couldn't find him." - Spike Milligan. (Possible slight misquote as I don't have the book to hand).
While a great many modern comedians credit Monty Python's Flying Circus as their inspiration, the members of Python themselves all point to 50s BBC radio comedy "The Goon Show" as inspiration themselves - on which Milligan wrote and performed alongside wartime pal Harry Secombe, and the great Peter Sellers.
It remains hilarious to this day.
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“All the proof in the world, won’t convince an idiot.”-Mark Twain
No wonder why when you try to give facts to a Trump supporter or a religious fundamentalist, it's like preaching to the deaf.
No wonder why when you try to give facts to a Trump supporter or a religious fundamentalist, it's like preaching to the deaf.
Danoff
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"Those who live by the sword, get shot by those who don't." - my brother
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