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Quote by Honore de Balzac

“Nothing about me surprises me.”

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French novelist born on May 20, 1799, and died on August 18, 1850. Honore de Balzac is renowned for his profound insight and criticism of 19th-century French society, hailed as the 'father of modern fiction'. more

“Puzzlement and doubt are, however, already crimes in the totalitarian state. The mind that is open for questions is open for dissent. In the totalitarian regime the doubting, inquisitive, and imaginative mind has to be suppressed. The totalitarian slave is only allowed to memorize, to salivate when the bell rings.”

Mind States Doubt Crime Slave Rings Regimes Bells Imaginative Dissent Inquisitive Totalitarian State Totalitarian Regimes

Author:Joost Meerloo

“Real patriots ask questions.”

Real Asks Patriot

Book:Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.”

Care Sufficient Delay Nobody Cares

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Terrorism, War & Bankruptcy are caused by the privatization of money, issued as a debt and compounded by interest.”

War Interest Terrorism Debt Bankruptcy Privatization

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“The World Trade Organization, The World Bank, The International Monetary Fund and other financial institutions virtually write economic policy and parliamentary legislation. With a deadly combination of arrogance and ruthlessness, they take their sledgehammers to fragile, interdependent, historically complex societies and devastate them, all under the fluttering banner of 'reform'.”

“In Defense of the World Order . . . U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die.”

World Order Dies Soldier Defense World Order

Author:Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

“It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.”

Certain Ought Degrees University Quantity Pledge

Book:Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage

Source: Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage

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