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"Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking. They want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation." - George Carlin

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"With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge -- we'll make it a thing of the past." - Aaron Swartz

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"I started reading ... how the educational system was developed, and alternatives to it, and ways that people could actually learn things instead of just regurgitating facts that teachers told them; and that kind of led me down this path of questioning things...." - Aaron Swartz

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"What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits quantity." - William S. Burroughs

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"When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives." ~ Robert A. Heinlein.

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“You owe the companies nothing. You especially don't owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.” ― Banksy

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"Only in America can you be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-War, Pro-Unmanned Drone Bombs, Pro-Nuclear Weapons, Pro-Guns, Pro-Torture, Pro-Land Mines, and still call yourself Pro-Life" John Fugelsang

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"Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense..." - Eugene Gladstone O'Neill [970x1000]

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"Bipartisan Usually Means That A Larger than Usual Deception Is Being Carried Out" --George Carlin

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"We do not talk. We bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines, and digests." ~ Henry Miller, 1945

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"An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings." ~ Salman Rushdie

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Long term effects of too much information

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"Without the ability to talk about government power, there's no way for citizens to make sure this power isn't being misused." - Aaron Swartz

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"The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites, lowest common denominator programming... but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance." -Carl Sagan

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"People willing to trade their freedom for security will receive neither." Benjamin Franklin

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"Culture is not your friend..." - Terence McKenna

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"If it was conventional wisdom that a bunch of unelected bankers looking out for rich people were the reason everyone was out of work, politicians would be forced to explain to angry voters why we had this crazy system and might actually consider doing something about it." - Aaron Swartz

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"Science is not about building a body of known 'facts'. It is a method for asking awkward questions and subjecting them to a reality check..." Terry Pratchett

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"I would've never agreed to the formation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in '47, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo." - President Harry Truman

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"We are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies and illusions. A world where greed is our God and wisdom is sin..." - Bill Hicks

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"As the internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them." - Aaron Swartz

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hopefully this is what saidit strives to be

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“I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how." Joseph Stalin - Chapter 5: "Memoirs of Stalin's Former Secretary," published in 1980, Paris

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“Accuse Your Enemy Of What You Are Doing, As You Are Doing It To Create Confusion.” --Karl Marx

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"Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will." - Joseph Goebbels

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"This is your life, this is your country - if you want to keep it safe you need to get involved." - Aaron Swartz

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Some solid Dick

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"Don't believe that every member of a group is as bad as it's worst 5 percent. If you do, you're probably among the worst 5 percent of whatever group you're in." - Scott Adams

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"Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth" Lucy Parsons

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"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency... the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered." Thomas Jefferson 1802

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"Selfishness is not living your life as you wish. It is asking others to live their lives as you wish." ~ Oscar Wilde

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"Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they're in good company." - Rene Descartes

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"Try to live together peacefully..." George Carlin

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“If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.” Terence McKenna

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"Talent is just pursued interest." - Bob Ross

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"The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous." George Orwell

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"America is just so weird in what they think is right and wrong..." Miley Cyrus

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"As a woman I completely reject Hillary's brand of bourgeois feminism, because it leaves out millions of immigrant women, poor women and the women under her bombs around the world." ~ Abby Martin, The Empire Files

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"A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company." - Oscar Wilde

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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. — Thomas Jefferson, 1807

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"Our idea of relaxing is all too often to plop down in front of the television set and let its pandering idiocy liquify our brains..." Bill Waterson

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If a Businessman makes a mistake, He suffers the consequences. If a Bureaucrat makes a mistake, You suffer the consequences. -Ayn Rand

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"We are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies and illusions. A world where greed is our God and wisdom is sin. Where division is key and unity is fantasy. Where the ego-driven cleverness of the mind is praised, rather than the intelligence of the heart.” Bill Hicks

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For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it. ~Jacques-Yves Cousteau

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“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted...” Frederick Douglass

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“Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.” Jim Henson

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"Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. I think a lot of what people call intelligence boils down to curiosity." - Aaron Swartz

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"He who stifles free discussion, secretly doubts whether what he professes to believe is really true." ~ Wendell Phillips

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"Forget Russia, the real threat to America comes from Israel." ~ Julian Assange

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"You become what you constantly think about..."

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"We came in peace for all mankind"

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“We decide something, put it then into the room and wait a while for something to happen. If there is no big shouting and no insurrection because most people do not understand what has been decided, then we go on - step by step until there is no turning back.” -- EU Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker

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"The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media" William Colby, Director of CIA 1973-1976

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"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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"It is the function of the CIA to keep the world unstable, and to propagandize, and teach the American people to hate" John Stockwell, former CIA official

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"The hope of a secure world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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"The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself." Bill Murray

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"It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with." Pete Seeger

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"Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body." - George Carlin

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"War is a racket. It always has been. It is probably the oldest, surely the most vicious. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many." - US Marine Corps General Smedly Butler

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"Though I may disagree with what you say, I will defend to the death your right to say it."

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"Rudeness is the weak person's imitation of strength." - Eric Hoffer

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"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength." - Eric Hoffer

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"The person who is most likely to be impacted by giving kindness is probably yourself."

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"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'" - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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"Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy." — Howard W. Newton

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"Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors." - Hemmingway

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“Ignorance is a lot like alcohol: the more you have of it, the less you are able to see its effect on you.” Jay Bylsma

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"Stay away from negative people, the have a problem for every solution." - Albert Einstein

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"There are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from monday to friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol form friday to monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in." Bill Hicks

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"One of the saddest lessons of history..." (Carl Sagan)

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"Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see..." Eden Ahbez

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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” Malcolm X

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"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money" -- Margaret Thatcher

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"That's all the media and the politicians are ever talking about - the things that separate us, things that make us different from one another. That's the way the ruling class operates in any society..." - George Carlin

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"Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. You can’t conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him." Robert A. Heinlein

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"We have created an atmosphere in which violence and hatred have become popular pastimes." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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"I look at each issue on its own merit. Partisan politics don't matter. It only matters whether something is good for the American people or not. That’s why many have a hard time figuring me out. I don’t play their games. I don’t fit in their boxes." Tulsi Gabbard

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"The problem is people are being hated when they are real, and being loved when they are fake" - Bob Marley

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"The sage battles his own ego. The fool battles everyone else's." Sufi Saying

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"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." approximately based on "Et ses mains ourdiraient les entrailles du prêtre, au défaut d’un cordon pour étrangler les rois." ~ Denis Diderot

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"The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, 30 second sound bites, lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance."

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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive." - CS Lewis (full quote inside)

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"If they took all the Drugs, Nicotine, Alcohol, and Caffeine off the market for six days..." Dick Gregory

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"The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is between poverty and wealth. Wherever the rulers, whether they be a minority or a majority, owe their power to wealth, that is an oligarchy. Wherever the poor rule, that is a democracy." - Aristotle

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"When the rich rob the poor, it's called business. When the poor fight back, it's called violence." - Mark Twain

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"War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. If only..." - General Smedley Butler, the most decorated Marine in US history at the time

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"If there are no Snowdens, if there are no Mannings, if there are no Assanges, there will be no free press." Chris Hedges --- Sad Reality in The New Corporate States of America

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"If they took all the Drugs, Nicotine, Alcohol, and Caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you." Dick Gregory

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"Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe." - Carl Sagan

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"The media's the most powerful entity on Earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses." - Malcom X

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“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues..."

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“What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor.”

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“The decay and disintegration of this culture is astonishingly amusing if you are emotionally detached from it. I have always viewed it from a safe distance, knowing I don't belong; it doesn't include me, and it never has” George Carlin

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"The ultimate test of your knowledge..." ~ Richard Feynman

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"The mine owners did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy all the gold belonged to them!" - William "Big Bill" Haywood

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"Shortly, the public will be unable to reason or think for themselves. They'll only be able to parrot the information they've been given on the previous night's news." ~ Zbiigniew Brzezinski in 1972

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"If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed, and love of power" P.J.O'Rourke

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