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EthixBytes “Those
friends thou hast and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops
of steel.” “There’s
class warfare all right—but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war,
and we’re winning.” “The
wealthiest 1% of Americans control 50% of the world’s wealth, while the bottom
50% of the world’s people, control 1% of the world’s wealth.” “Halliburton
hired Pakistanis and Indians for kitchen work, but no Iraqis. Why? They could
poison the food! Before being hired, applicants were also asked if they
supported Roe vs. Wade.” “The test
of a government’s commitment to human rights is measured by the way it treats
its worst offenders. History will judge these actions harshly.” “I have
been called a liar . . . an anti-Semite . . . a bigot . . . a plagiarist . . .
a coward. Those accusations concern me, but they don’t detract from the fact
the book is accurate and needed.” “The
watchword of this new religion is ‘My country right or wrong . . . In Germany,
it was preached by Hitler. In Italy it was preached by Mussolini. And in
America it is being preached by . . . the advocates of white supremacy, and the
America-First movements.” “We need to
ask Americans to be patriotic about something other than the war.” “A realist
is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an
idealist who has gone through the fire and been burned.” “The
American people won the cold war—no one president, no one party. It was the
work of many years and many administrations. The credit belongs to the people.” “Exxon
Mobil Corp. gave $16 million to 43 ideological groups between 1998 and 2005 in
an effort to mislead the public by discrediting the science behind global
warming.” “An
estimated 5-7 million people in South Africa are infected with HIV/AIDS . . .
by 2015 there will be about 2.2 million orphans there as a result of AIDS.” “If God
himself did not compel obedience, than no man should try. Faith coerced is not
faith, it is tyranny.” “If every
American switched five light bulbs in his or her home to energy saving light
bulbs, it would be like taking one million cars off the road!” “One in
three high school students in this republic says that the First Amendment to
the Constitution of the U.S. goes too far in the right that it guarantees you
as a citizen [and] one-half of students thought newspapers should not be
allowed to print whatever they want without first gaining governmental
approval.” “His
popularity is a testimony of the spiritual infantilism of the American
culture.” “A majority
of cohabiting couples are unlikely to wed; 90% of couples break up within five
years of moving in together.” “Don’t
raise your voice, improve your arguments.” Updated Monday, March 05, 2007 |
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