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“the necessary thing from the socialists’ point of view is not egalitarian economic outcomes, but state control.”
― Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism
― Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism
“If accuracy, fidelity, and the strictest attention to the letter of the text, be supposed to constitute the qualities of an excellent version, this of all versions, must, in general, be accounted the most excellent. Every sentence, every word, every syllable, and every letter and point, seems to have been weighed with the nicest exactitude; and expressed, either in the text, or margin, with the greatest precision”
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“Socialism always begins with a universal vision for the brotherhood of man and ends with people having to eat their own pets.”
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“Years later, while imprisoned as coalition detainees, some of Zarqawi’s senior lieutenants described the AQI leader’s desire to incite a global sectarian war by comparing him to the Joker, Heath Ledger’s character in the 2008 movie, “The Dark Knight,” whose central desire was “to watch the world burn.”30”
― The U.S. Army in the Iraq War Volume 1: Invasion Insurgency Civil War 2003 – 2006
― The U.S. Army in the Iraq War Volume 1: Invasion Insurgency Civil War 2003 – 2006
“Qua story, it can only have one merit: that of making the audience want to know what happens next. And conversely it can only have one fault: that of making the audience not want to know what happens next.”
― Aspects of the Novel
― Aspects of the Novel
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