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    The Beatles
    “An interview:
    Interviewer: How do you sleep with long hair?
    Paul McCartney: How do you sleep with short hair?
    George Harrison: How do you sleep with your arms and legs still attached?
    Paul: It's just as much bother. Less, even.
    John Lennon: Short hair has to be trimmed.
    Ringo Starr: Yeah.
    John: That's why we have parties!
    Paul: Yeah, that must be it! We can't sleep with all this long hair!”
    ― The Beatles
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    Lance Armstrong
    “Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone.”
    ― Lance Armstrong, It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
    tags: amity, companionship, competition, cooperation, success
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    Criss Jami
    “Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: funny, funny-but-true, hell, humor, introversion, introvert, introverts, parties, party, partying, people, saints, social, socializing
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    William Goldman
    “you were already more beautiful than anything I dared to dream. In our years apart, my imaginings did their best to improve on you perfection. At night, your face was forever behind my eyes. And now I see that that vision who kept me company in my loneliness was a hag compared to the beauty now before me.” –Westley

    Enough about my beauty.” Buttercup said. “Everybody always talks about how beautiful I am. I’ve got a mind, Westley. Talk about that.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
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    George Orwell
    “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
    ― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language
    tags: 1946, language, power-of-words, propaganda, thought
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    Howard Zinn
    “How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?”
    ― Howard Zinn
    tags: blowback, propaganda, terrorism, war
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    George Orwell
    “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: history, propaganda, rewriting-history
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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “There is nothing in the record of the past two years when both Houses of Congress have been controlled by the Republican Party which can lead any person to believe that those promises will be fulfilled in the future. They follow the Hitler line - no matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as truth.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: disinformation, hype, ignorance, indoctrination, influence, misquoted, power, propaganda
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    Noam Chomsky
    “Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.”
    ― Noam Chomsky, Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
    tags: democracy, mass-media, propaganda, repression, totalitarianism
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    Lysander Spooner
    “Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.”
    ― Lysander Spooner
    tags: lying, media, propaganda, tyranny
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    B.W. Powe
    “We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an economic theory, a political party, the White House, Newsworld or CNN.”
    ― B. W. Powe, Towards a Canada of Light
    tags: freedom, propaganda, reality, truth
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    H.L. Mencken
    “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
    ― H.L. Mencken, In Defense of Women
    tags: politics, propaganda
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