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Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump:
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Regime Change doesn't pertain to Venezuela, or Iran, nor if the future turns on Trump's modus operandi to Cuba. Regime Change is the difference between Trump I and Trump II. Donald J. Trump went down after his first administration. Cry as he may, six ...more |
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| I've read a lot of Bernard Cornwell, including Waterloo, but this was my first in the Sharpe series. He never fails to excite and entertain, and Sharpe and his companions, and fellow soldiers make for a great read. I followed up with the next book in ...more | |
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“Fascism is capitalism plus murder.”
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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
― I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
“They use everything about the hog except the squeal.”
― The Jungle
― The Jungle
“A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and that Jonah swallowed a whale; and with the progress of science they were naturally finding this more and more difficult. A school of ingenious Bible-twisters arose, to invent symbolical and literary meanings for fairy tales, in order that people who no longer believed could continue with good conscience to collect the salaries of belief.”
― Mammonart: An Essay in Economic Interpretation
― Mammonart: An Essay in Economic Interpretation
“Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.”
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