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“DSM-IV is the fabrication upon which psychiatry seeks acceptance by medicine in general. Insiders know it is more a political than scientific document… DSM-IV has become a bible and a money making bestseller—its major failings notwithstanding.”

Knows Political Failing Acceptance Majors Medicine Making Money Documents Psychiatry Insiders Fabrication

Author:Loren Mosher

“Particle physics suffers more from being infected by the socio-political mood of the day than from lack of spectacular opportunities for major and profound discoveries.”

Political Suffering Opportunity Majors Discovery Profound Physics Mood Particles Spectacular Particle Physics

Author:Leon M. Lederman

“The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism.”

Political Century Events Majors Socialism Twentieth Century

Author:Irving Kristol

“To condemn free-market capitalism because of anything going on today makes no sense. There is no evidence that capitalism exists today. We are deeply involved in an interventionist-planned economy that allows major benefits to accrue to the politically connected of both political parties. One may condemn the fraud and the current system, but it must be called by its proper names Keynesian inflationism, interventionism, and corporatism.”

Source: Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property

“Just as there can be little doubt that labor unions are a significant political force, neither can there be much question that this political force is a by-product of the purely industrial activities that unions regard as their major function.”

Littles Political Force Doubt Products Activity Majors Labor Function Regard Unions Significant Labor Union

Book:THE LOGIC OF COLLECTIVE ACTION

Source: THE LOGIC OF COLLECTIVE ACTION

“When the first emperor wanted to unify the country, one of the major policies was to create one system of written signs. By force, brutal force, he eliminated all the other scripts. One script became the official script. All the others were banned. And those who used other scripts were punished severely. And then the meanings of all the characters, over the centuries, had to be kept uniform as a part of the political apparatus. So from the very beginning the written word was a powerful political tool.”

Firsts Country Character Wanted Political Used Force Powerful Written Century Policy Majors Tools Scripts Officials Brutal Uniforms Emperor Banned Written Word

Author:Ha Jin

“Virtually every war fought since the Act of Union had gone badly at some stage, but before 1783 none had ended in defeat. Nor would any major war in which Britain was involved after this date end in defeat. Those who are curious about this country's peculiar social and political stability probably need look no further than this for essential cause.”

Needs Looks War Ends Country Political Social Causes Gone Stage Involved Essentials Majors Unions Defeat Curious Britain Stability Peculiar British History

Author:Linda Colley

“What Mr. Loughner knows is that he has the full support of a major political party in this country ... he knows that ... the Democrat party is attempting to find anybody but him to blame. He knows if he plays his cards right, he's just a victim. ... This guy clearly understands he's getting all the attention and he understands he's got a political party doing everything it can, plus a local sheriff doing everything that they can to make sure he's not convicted of murder -- but something lesser.”

Ifs Knows Country Play Political Guy Party Attention Support Stupid Majors Murder Victim Blame Democrat Locals Cards Plus Political Parties This Guy Attempting Hateful Sheriffs

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life.”

Political Politics Loses Majors Presses Temper Publicity Political Life

Author:Christabel Pankhurst

“the two major parties too often present us with a choice of the evil of two lessers.”

Two Political Choices Evil Politics Party Majors Political Parties

Author:Patricia Ireland

“A major danger in using highly abstractive methods in political philosophy is that one will succeed merely in generalizing one's own local prejudices and repackaging them as demands of reason. The study of history can help to counteract this natural human bias.”

Humans Reason Philosophy Helping Political Natural Study Danger Succeed Demand Majors Prejudice Method Locals Bias Political Philosophy

Author:Raymond Geuss

“There's Adam Clymer, major league asshole from The New York Times.”

Humor Political New York Majors League Adam New York Times Political Humor Major League

Author:George W. Bush

“At the heart of every major political upheaval lies a fiscal revolution.”

Heart Political Lying Revolution Majors Upheaval

Book:Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Source: Capital in the Twenty-First Century