"This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs."

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"This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs."

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"If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis."

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"Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order."

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"The purpose of this lectchoor is to let you know where we are. We are in the deep cack. It couldn't be worse if it was raining arseholes. Any questions?"

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"There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes."

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"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."

H. G. Wells, English Author

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"Modern society is a biological disaster masquerading as progress."

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"Crisis is Good. Crisis is a Messenger."

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"There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full."

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"I'm as radical as libertarians come."

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"Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom."

Man

"People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials."

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"Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead."

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"City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure."

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"The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful."

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"The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners."

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"It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance."

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"I'm tired of being considered property."

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"Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day."

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