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  • #1
    Benjamin Franklin
    “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
    Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin

  • #2
    Neal Stephenson
    “Southern California doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot.”
    Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

  • #3
    Neal Stephenson
    “To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.”
    Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

  • #4
    Eric Schlosser
    “A public outcry usually masks a private obsession.”
    Eric Schlosser, Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market – Inside the Underground Economy: Tycoons, Technology, and Power

  • #5
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “It is, in the imagination of combat's fans, the divinely listless loveplay that follows the orgasm of victory. It is called 'mopping up.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
    tags: witty

  • #6
    Christopher Moore
    “Devil's Food?"

    You can only eat so much white cake, my friend.”
    Christopher Moore
    tags: humor

  • #7
    Cormac McCarthy
    “Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.”
    Cormac McCarthy, The Road

  • #8
    Christopher Moore
    “Routine feeds the illusion of safety...”
    Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal

  • #9
    Christopher Moore
    “The medium obscured the message.”
    Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal

  • #10
    Christopher Moore
    “Ack! Parables. I hate parables.”
    Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal
    tags: humor

  • #11
    John Burdett
    “Don't ask me when I first mastered the obvious.”
    John Burdett, Bangkok 8
    tags: humor

  • #12
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.”
    Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

  • #13
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur, amen. Mahalo.”
    Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

  • #14
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Politics is the Art of Controlling Your Enviroment.”
    Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

  • #15
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “This is the fast lane, folks...and some of us like it here.”
    Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

  • #16
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.”
    Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

  • #17
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba....”
    Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
    tags: humor

  • #18
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “I knew a Buddhist once, and I've hated myself ever since.”
    Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
    tags: humor

  • #19
    Cherie Priest
    “She was thirty-five, and she did not look a minute younger.”
    Cherie Priest, Boneshaker
    tags: humor

  • #20
    Thomas Pynchon
    “They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.”
    Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

  • #21
    Thomas Pynchon
    “Oh, this beer here is cold, cold and hop-bitter, no point coming up for air, gulp, till it's all--hahhhh.”
    Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

  • #22
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women talk when they want to. Or don't.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

  • #23
    John Brunner
    “There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.”
    John Brunner, The Shockwave Rider

  • #24
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

  • #25
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

  • #26
    Mark Twain
    “Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
    Mark Twain

  • #27
    Robert Orben
    “Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.”
    Robert Orben

  • #28
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #29
    Howard Zinn
    “I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they're doing. I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that's handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers.”
    Howard Zinn

  • #30
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress



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