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[Quote No.36495] Need Area: Friends > General
"How can you tell a politician is lying? His lips are moving!" - old political joke
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[Quote No.36496] Need Area: Friends > General
"...anything [regardless of which economic theory -Keynesian, monetarist, supply-side, etc - except Austrian which advises against any government interference in any market] that has proven to be a useful [government fiscal or monetary] policy tool in the past is a likely candidate to be a tool in the present [to meet the aims of government and the political elite, while being necessarily dressed up in new euphemisms and rationales to induce political support from academia and the populace]." - Chris Martenson
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[Quote No.36510] Need Area: Friends > General
"Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men [women] and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime. [A wider personal experience is required to more fully understand humanity and the world. Travel is therefore important for intellectual, emotional, social and spiritual growth.]" - Mark Twain
Quote from his classic book, 'Innocents Abroad'.
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[Quote No.36516] Need Area: Friends > General
"The most important single ingredient in the formula for success is knowing how to get along with people." - Theodore Roosevelt
US President
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[Quote No.36552] Need Area: Friends > General
"You don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone. [But it doesn't have to be that way. You can appreciate it today and be grateful for it if you imagine it already gone and then realise you still have it. The feeling is fabulous as the blessings are clearly and vividly sensed. Then it is easy to be grateful it or, for that matter, the person is there. And in the case of a person you can't help but want to tell them how sincerely grateful you are that they are there and make the extra efforts required to help them feel the same way about you!]" - Common Saying
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[Quote No.36581] Need Area: Friends > General
"Wars cost much silver. [This alone stops most sensible nations from considering it, let alone the horrific cost in blood.]" - Sun Tzu
Famous miltary tactician.
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[Quote No.36583] Need Area: Friends > General
"An ordinary nation fights wars to protect itself. An empire fights wars because that is what an empire does." - Bill Bonner
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[Quote No.36594] Need Area: Friends > General
"Have the courage to say no.
Have the courage to face the truth.
Have the courage to do the right thing because it is right." - W. Clement Stone
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[Quote No.36601] Need Area: Friends > General
"[All countries have certain needs and will consider going to war if they are denied. These days politicians refer to them as 'security' issues - i.e food security, power-energy security, etc. Understanding these needs often explain otherwise inexplicable political strategies, tactics, comments and behaviours.] ...why did Japan decide to build nuclear power plants they knew could be potentially dangerous only 15 years or so after the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
The answer has to do with World War II. Japan has no resources, other than rock, wood, water and its industrious people. All raw material to this island nation must be imported by sea.
Japan entered World War II to seize more land in Manchuria and China, and to gain vital resources in South Asia. In 1940, most of Japan’s heavy oil, and all its aviation fuel, came from the world’s largest oil producer, the United States. Interestingly, the US was also Germany’s leading oil supplier.
When in late 1941, US President Franklin Roosevelt sought (my view) to push Japan into the war by imposing an embargo of oil and scrap metal on Japan, Tokyo had a two-year stockpile of oil.
Tokyo’s military-dominated government faced a stark choice: go immediately to war in hopes of a quick victory while there was still oil, or watch its oil stores dwindle way and thus face military impotence. War was the choice.
Japan’s leading military officer, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, warned Japan was going to war for oil, and would be defeated because of lack of oil.
In 1941, Japan’s economy was only 10% of the size of the US economy in what was to become history’s first industrialized war.
Japanese strategists had seen how Britain’s total naval blockade of the Central Powers in World War I brought about the final defeat of Germany and Austria-Hungary by starvation, not battlefield defeat.
Yamamoto’s warning was prophetic. Japan could not sustain its maritime supply lines to South Asia and the oilfields of Indonesia and Malaysia, both former European colonies.
By mid-1944, a brilliant, audacious campaign by US submarines had cut off nearly all of Japan’s imports of raw material and oil. The winter of 1944-45 was the coldest in 20 years. Japanese, facing starvation, subsisted on roots and grass. As in the current Fukushima disaster, there was no fuel to cremate huge numbers of bodies.
Japan did not import a single barrel of oil in 1945. Without oil, its navy could not leave port, its aircraft could not fly. Pathetic attempts were made to make aviation fuel by boiling and distilling pine roots.
The powerful US Fifth Fleet that was nearing Japan alone used more fuel in a year than all of Japan. Without fuel, Japan could not fight. Modern mechanized warfare runs on oil. Adolf Hitler also failed to understand this critical strategic point.
While Japan starved, its cities were laid waste by the most lethal bombing raids in history Nearly half of Japan’s cities, 66 in all, sustained 40% or more total damage from a rain of fire bombs dropped by Gen. Curtiss LeMay’s US B-29’s.
Thirty percent of Japan’s urban population was killed, wounded or left homeless; 2.5 million buildings were destroyed. Most Japanese cities were built of wood and paper – as many still were around Fukushima – perfect targets for LeMay’s fire bombs.
On 9 March, 1945, US B-29’s dropped 1,667 tons of fire bombs on Tokyo. Fifteen square miles of downtown Tokyo were burned to the ground in a gigantic holocaust. An estimated 185,000 civilians died and another 100,000 were severely wounded – nearly all by burns.
The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki inflicted an immediate total of 200,000 dead and wounded, with many more in ensuring years and decades.
After the war, Japan’s leadership concluded their nation had to have energy independence, even if it meant from potentially dangerous nuclear power. Japan must never again be left helpless. Oil was too precious to use for power generation. It had to be stockpiled for strategic use and transportation.
So Japan took a calculated risk." - Eric Margolis
He is a journalist, historian and author. This extract was taken from an article he published April 11, 2011.
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[Quote No.36607] Need Area: Friends > General
"When the Government fears the people, there is liberty.
When the people fear the government, there is tyranny." - Thomas Jefferson
US President
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[Quote No.36610] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Good, 'paternalisticly caring', statist - whether socialist, communist of fascist] Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." - Frederic Bastiat
French lawyer and politician
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[Quote No.36612] Need Area: Friends > General
"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts." - Will Rogers
Famous American comedian
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[Quote No.36622] Need Area: Friends > General
"Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds." - John Perry Barlow
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[Quote No.36631] Need Area: Friends > General
"Who trusted God was love indeed,
And love Creation's final law,
Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw,
With ravine, shriek'd against his creed." - Lord Alfred Tennyson
(1809 – 1892), Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular poets in the English language. This is a famous section from his poem, 'In Memoriam A. H. H.', Canto 56, published in 1850. A. H. H. was Tennyson's friend Arthur Henry Hallam. The poet used the elegy to pose questions about the apparent conflict between love as the basis of the Christian religion, civilisation and Human interdependence and the callousness of nature and its survival of the fittest-strongest-most forceful or ruthless evolution.
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[Quote No.36636] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare." - Mark Twain
(1835-1910), author and humorist.
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[Quote No.36638] Need Area: Friends > General
"How far should one accept the 'rules' of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption [of beneficial individuality]? Only by answering such questions does the conscience [and 'soul'] truly define itself." - Kenneth Tynan
(1927-1980), critic and writer.
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[Quote No.36639] Need Area: Friends > General
"A cult is a religion with no political power." - Tom Wolfe
(b. 1931), author and journalist.
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[Quote No.36640] Need Area: Friends > General
"The world looks with some awe upon a man [or woman] who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is someone outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; someone strangely [free] enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independent of the ordinary currents of human action." - Winston Churchill
(1874-1965), politician and statesman. He was the British Prime Minister during the Second World War.
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[Quote No.36649] Need Area: Friends > General
"A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company." - Charles Evans Hughes
(1862-1948), jurist.
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[Quote No.36650] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men [and women] cruel." - Anatole France
(1844-1924), novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate.
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[Quote No.36652] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Be careful lest] We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny." - E.B. White
(1899-1985), writer.
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[Quote No.36659] Need Area: Friends > General
"Relieve people in distress as speedily as you must release a fish from a dry rill [creek]. Deliver people from danger as quickly as you must free a sparrow from a tight noose. Be compassionate to orphans and relieve widows. Respect the old and help the poor." - Yin Chih Wen
The Yin Chih Wen (The Tract of the Quiet Way) is a Chinese religio-ethical tract.
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[Quote No.36661] Need Area: Friends > General
"Whoever can protest against the injustices of his family but refrains from doing so, should be punished for the crimes of his family. Whoever can protest against the injustices of the people of his community, but refrains from doing so, should be punished for the crimes of his community. Whoever is able to protest against the injustices of the entire world but refrains from doing so, should be punished for the crimes of the whole world." - Talmud
The Talmud, which is Hebrew for 'instruction, learning', from a root 'teach, study', is a central text of mainstream Judaism.
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[Quote No.36679] Need Area: Friends > General
"We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea,
and we owe each other a terrible loyalty!" - G. K. Chesterton
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[Quote No.36681] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Capitalism Vs socialism or communism:] Neglecting the benefits of using resources more productively misses one of the main economic lessons of the past half century. Transfers, grants and redistribution did little to raise living standards in Asia, Latin America and Africa. Capitalist development and open economies lifted vastly more people out of poverty in a decade than welfare state policies had achieved in 50 years... After one generation, a one percentage point difference in growth rate becomes a 25% difference in per-capita income." - Allan H Meltzer
Professor of Public Policy at the Tepper School, Carnegie Mellon University
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[Quote No.36682] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Always be aware that others - in politics, war, business, etc. - may try to use strategies of surprise and force:] In general, the men of lower intelligence won out. Afraid of their own shortcomings and of the intelligence of their opponents, so that they would not lose out in reasoned argument or be taken by surprise by their quick-witted opponents, they boldly moved into action. Their enemies, on the contrary, contemptuous and confident in their ability to anticipate, thought there was no need to take by action what they could win by their brains." - Thucydides
(c. 460 BC – c. 400 BC)
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[Quote No.36683] Need Area: Friends > General
"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it." - Thucydides
(c. 460 BC – c. 400 BC)
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[Quote No.36684] Need Area: Friends > General
"We Greeks believe that a man [or woman] who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing." - Thucydides
(c. 460 BC – c. 400 BC).
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[Quote No.36690] Need Area: Friends > General
"To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most [empowering and] lucrative of its branches." - Thomas Paine
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[Quote No.36691] Need Area: Friends > General
"People hate as they love, unreasonably." - William M. Thackeray
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[Quote No.36697] Need Area: Friends > General
"Slavery [racism and other forms of belittlement] can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one." - Maria Weston Chapman
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[Quote No.36701] Need Area: Friends > General
"Democracy [while it is perhaps the best and fairest method of civil government tried so far, is not perfect, as it sometimes] encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant." - John Simon
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[Quote No.36707] Need Area: Friends > General
"If you are to stand up for your Government you must be able to stand up to your Government." - Lord Harold Caccia
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[Quote No.36709] Need Area: Friends > General
"There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave." - Nikki Giovanni
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[Quote No.36711] Need Area: Friends > General
"We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties." - James Madison
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[Quote No.36714] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Beware lest] Passion and prejudice govern the world...under the name of reason." - John Wesley
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[Quote No.36717] Need Area: Friends > General
"There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought." - Charles Kingsley
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[Quote No.36720] Need Area: Friends > General
"In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher." - Dalai Lama
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[Quote No.36724] Need Area: Friends > General
"We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves." - Archibald Macleish
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[Quote No.36729] Need Area: Friends > General
"Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers." - Voltaire
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[Quote No.36730] Need Area: Friends > General
"Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose." - Albert Schweitzer
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[Quote No.36734] Need Area: Friends > General
"He serves his party best who serves his country best. [He serves his country best who serves humanity best.]" - Rutherford B. Hayes
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[Quote No.36738] Need Area: Friends > General
"Better [for me] to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor." - Joseph Addison
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[Quote No.36740] Need Area: Friends > General
"Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance." - Henry Ward Beecher
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[Quote No.36743] Need Area: Friends > General
"You REAP what You SOW: Life is like a boomerang. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy." - Grant M. Bright
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[Quote No.36744] Need Area: Friends > General
"I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different." - Jean Jacques Rousseau
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[Quote No.36750] Need Area: Friends > General
"A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses." - Proverb
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[Quote No.36763] Need Area: Friends > General
"Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself." - John Macnaughton
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[Quote No.36767] Need Area: Friends > General
"Happy the society whose deepest divisions are ones of style." - Peter Mckay
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[Quote No.36771] Need Area: Friends > General
"Justice is the only foundation upon which a society of free and independent people can exist." - Leslie Snyder
'The Freeman', March 1980.
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