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[What makes America the greatest country in the world?] It’s not the greatest country in the world! We’re seventh in literacy, 27th in math, 22nd in science, 49th in life expectancy, 178th in infant mortality, third in median household income, No. 4 in labor force, and No. 4 in exports. So when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world, I don’t know what the [bleep] you’re talking about. [Aaron Sorkin]

...{F}or I knew that the King in Yellow had opened his tattered mantle and there was only God to cry to now.

Robert W. Chambers, The Yellow Sign from The King In Yellow.

"I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows. but now the damned things have learned to swim." [Frida Kahlo]

people who believe in politics
are like people who believe in god:
they are sucking wind through bent
straws.

-Charles Bukowski

"The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them." - Albert Einstein

"Those who were dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

Nietzsche was a special guy---until HE went insane.

"There are two types of republicans, the rich and the stupid. The rich ones strive to keep the stupid ones stupid and the stupid ones strive to keep the rich ones rich." [David Seltzer]

"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles." -Charlie Chaplin

"Loneliness doesn't come from having no one around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that are important to you." -Carl Jung

In the series finale of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, one of the characters said this:

"Never think that almost is good enough for you."

^^^
excellent
"be yourself- everybody else is already taken." - oscar wilde

Thanks auntblabby

"If you can't fly, then run,
If you can't run, then walk,
If you can't walk, then crawl,
but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward."

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Great Spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." Albert Einstein

Anti-drug hysteria is now worldwide, and it poses a deadly threat to personal freedoms and due-process protections of the law everywhere.

-William S. Burroughs