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“What is important here is cash. [A] leader needs money, gold and diamonds to run his hundred castles, feed his thousand women, buy cars for the millions of boot-lickers under his heels, reinforce the loyal military forces and still have enough change left to deposit into his numbered Swiss accounts.”
― Voices of Zaire: Rhetoric or Reality
― Voices of Zaire: Rhetoric or Reality
“We need to create a crisis to get consensus in order to bring about change.”
― Excellence
― Excellence
“I’m always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality.
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“Time Flies Like an Arrow, Fruit Flies Like a Banana”
― Cosmic Trigger: Final Secret of the Illuminati: Down to Earth v. 2 of Robert Anton Wilson 2nd (second) Revised Edition on 01 January 1991
― Cosmic Trigger: Final Secret of the Illuminati: Down to Earth v. 2 of Robert Anton Wilson 2nd (second) Revised Edition on 01 January 1991
“There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery,”
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