Jacque Fresco Quotes
War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived.
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Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marriage.
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It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.
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Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas the Irishmen found economic opportunity wide and daily growing wider, the Negro found public opinion determined to 'keep him in his place.'
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'But,' say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, 'we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.' On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue.
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The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
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The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.
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As a Westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn almost entirely from the progressive tradition, but as an affirmation of them.
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I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. But, I do not contribute at all.
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The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
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All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to our country and reinforced what our dad had shown us about the meaning of service.
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Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.
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I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.
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Tell the lie over and over and over. It's an art that Trump understands well. There's no better evidence than his absolutely false claim that he opposed the Iraq War in 2002.
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I think once you're a mother to one, you're a mother to them all.
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I simply told people what I thought about the state of the war in Vietnam, and it was that we better get out of this.
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I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.
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I don't really want to make this sound depressing, but I will say that I didn't really have my first kiss until really, really late.
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The stars are matter, we're matter, but it doesn't matter.
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Didn't the other guys tell you? Nobody dunks on Manute B-O-L!
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When my mother had four girls, and she could tell her marriage was falling apart, she went back to college and got her degree in music and education.
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I think I've been a moderately good boss. I've made a lot of people extremely wealthy - I think we've created 30 millionaires.
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War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived.
