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It’s the first war we ever had that was on every channel plus cable… and the war got good ratings too, didn’t it? Got good ratings! Well, we like war!!! We like war! We’re a war-like people! We like war because we’re good at it! You know why we’re good at it? Cause we get a lot of practice. This country’s only 200 years old and already, we’ve had 10 major wars. We average a major war every 20 years in this country so we’re good at it! And it’s a good thing we are; we’re not very good at anything else anymore! Huh? Can’t build a decent car, can’t make a TV set or a VCR worth a fuck, got no steel industry left, can’t educate our young people, can’t get health care to our old people, but we can bomb the shit out of your country all right! Huh? Especially if your country is full of brown people; oh we like that don’t we? That’s our hobby!

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George Carlin: Jammin' in New York
George Carlin
War

One day, a little man went into a cafe in the North zone. He said, "I'd like a nice hot and sweet coffee." Then he added, "But I'm not paying because I'm not afraid of anyone." He drank his coffee. He left. He drank his coffee and he left without paying. The owner didn't say anything because he didn't want any trouble. But the man kept coming back, so the owner said, "I've had it!" "I'll get one of the big guys to beat him up if he does this again!" Sure enough, the fourth time the little man came back and said: "I'd like a nice hot and sweet coffee." The big guy said, "So, you're not afraid of anyone?" "No," said the little man. "Me neither," said the big guy. "So," said the little man, "Two nice hot and sweet coffees."

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Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution
Natacha von Braun

Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.

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Oscar Wilde
De Profundis
Nature

Sofia Sartor:
You mentioned a creed before. What is it?

Ezio Auditore Da Firenze:
Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

Sofia Sartor:
That is rather cynical.

Ezio Auditore Da Firenze:
It would be if it were doctrine. But it is merely an observation on the nature of reality. To say that nothing is true is to realise that the foundations of society are fragile and that we must be the shepherds of our own civilization. To say that everything is permitted is to understand that we are the architects of our actions and that we must live with our consequences, whether glorious or tragic.

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Assassin's Creed Revelations
Ezio Auditore de Firenze
Sofia Sartor
Life
Philosophy
Truth
Responsibility
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Modern industrial society is a fanatical religion. We are demolishing poisoning destroying all life-systems on the planet. We are signing IOUs our children will not be able to pay... We are acting as if we were the last generation on the planet. Without a radical change in heart, in mind, in vision, the earth will end up like Venus, charred and dead.

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Jose Antonio Lutzenberger
Humanity
Human, People
Earth
Ecology
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