a foreign affair juxtaposed with a statesideand domestically approved romantic fancy is mysteriously attractive due to circumstances knowing it will only be parlayed into a memory

~ Tom Waits

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If it's wrong when they do it, it's wrong when we do it.

~ Noam Chomsky

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He had conquered murder only to be faced with war. There were no laws for that.

~ T.h. White

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I should have paid greater attention to my mentor in graduate school, Samuel Huntington, who once explained that Americans never recognize that, in the developing world, the key is not the kind of government — communist, capitalist, democratic, dictatorial — but the degree of government. That absence of government is what we are watching these days, from Libya to Iraq to Syria.(“Why they still hate us, 13 years later,” Washington Post, 09/05/2014)

~ Fareed Zakaria

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