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“Reading Alan Zweibel makes me laugh out loud. And yet it is not a particularly funny name.”

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Eric Idle is a British comedian, screenwriter, and musician, born on March 29, 1943. He is best known as a member of the comedy troupe Monty Python and for his distinctive humor style and versatile performance skills. more

“...As the disparity between the rich and the poor grows, the fight to corner resources is intensifying. To push through their "sweetheart deals," to corporatize the crops we grow, the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the dreams we dream, corporate globalization needs an international confederation of loyal, corrupt, authoritarian governments in poorer countries to push through unpopular reforms and quell the mutinies. Corporate Globalization-or shall we call it by its name?-Imperialism-needs a press that pretends to be free. It needs courts that pretend to dispense justice.”

“Pick the topic you like: the Middle East, international terrorism, Central America, whatever it is - the picture of the world that's presented to the public has only the remotest relation to reality. The truth of the matter is buried under edifice after edifice of lies upon lies. It's all been a marvelous success from the point of view in deterring the threat of democracy, achieved under conditions of freedom, which is extremely interesting. It's not like a totalitarian state, where it's done by force. These achievements are under conditions of freedom.”

Source: Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda

“[The ruling elites] know who their enemies are, and their enemies are the people, the people at home and the people abroad. Their enemies are anybody who wants more social justice, anybody who wants to use the surplus value of society for social needs rather than for individual class greed, that's their enemy.”

People Knows Want Needs Use Home Values Individual Social Justice Enemy Class Social Justice Greed Elites Ruling Surplus

Author:Michael Parenti

“In training, there is no winning or losing. There is only learning.”

Winning Losing Training Win Or Lose

Author:Tucker Max

“We know a great deal, but our ignorance is sobering and boundless. With each step forward, with each problem which we solve, we not only discover new and unsolved problems, but we also discover that where we believed that we were standing on firm and safe ground, all things are, in truth, insecure and in a state of flux.”

Knows States Problem Deals Steps Ignorance Safe Standing All Things Solve Firm Insecure Boundless Steps Forward Flux Unsolved Problems

Author:Karl Popper

“Persuasion isn't about the people you disagree with. It's about the fulcrum; the persuadable audience.”

People Audience Disagree Persuasion Fulcrum

Author:Jay Heinrichs

“Brands communicate in two directions: they help us tell other people something about ourselves, but they also help us form ideas about who we are.”

People Two Ideas Helping Form Communicate Brands Who We Are

Author:Dan Ariely

“Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.”

Eye Acceptance Gay Happenings Gay Marriage Blink Blink Of An Eye

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life.”

Enough Motivation Term Acceptance Anxiety Performing Desperation Positive Motivation

Author:Phoebe Snow

“The secret of karma yoga which is to perform actions without any fruitive desires is taught by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita.”

Action Desire Secret Lord Taught Yoga Karma Krishna Karma Yoga Gita Lord Krishna

Author:Swami Vivekananda

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