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He turned up the car radio and punched buttons until he found something loud and thumpingly exultant, some piece of jolly stupidity from AC/DC. Tad Williams
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William Shakespeare quote: "False face must hide what the false heart doth know."
False face must hide what the false heart doth know. William Shakespeare
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And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what our foreign policy is really about, what foreign aid is about, how our corporations work, where our tax money goes, I know we will demand change. John Perkins
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To fly or not to fly, that's the question. Dan Brown
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There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment. Noam Chomsky