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They got you by the balls – George Carlin

“Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice…you don’t.

You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.

They got you by the balls.

They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying … lobbying, to get what they want … Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I’ll tell you what they don’t want … they don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking.

They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that … that doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. That’s right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fuckin’ years ago. They don’t want that.

You know what they want? They want obedient workers … Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your fuckin’ retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it … they’ll get it all from you sooner or later cause they own this fuckin’ place. It’s a big club and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in The big club.

By the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table has tilted folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care.

Good honest hard-working people … white collar, blue collar it doesn’t matter what colour shirt you have on. Good honest hard-working people continue, these are people of modest means … continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t give a fuck about you… they don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t care about you at all … at all … at all, and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. That’s what the owners count on.

The fact that Americans will probably remain wilfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that’s being jammed up their assholes everyday, because the owners of this country know the truth. It’s called the American Dream cause you have to be asleep to believe it…
– George Carlin

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Hell – Aldous Huxley

“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”
― Aldous Huxley

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Chose – Stephen Sondheim

I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken – the choosing was not. You have to move on.
– Stephen Sondheim

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Good man – Augustine

When we ask how good a man is, we do not ask what he does, nor even what he believes, but what he loves.
– Augustine

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Mother – Dorothy Canfield Fisher

“A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”
– Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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We know too much – T.S. Elliot

“We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.”
– T.S. Elliot

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Happened to things – Leonardo da Vinci

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
– Leonardo da Vinci

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Chisel away the superfluous material – Michelangelo

“The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.”

― Michelangelo

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Messengers – Rumi

“These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.”
– Rumi

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We see the world – Stephen R. Covey

“We see the world, not as it is, but as we are – or, as we are conditioned to see it.”
― Stephen R. Covey

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Keep talking – Stephen Hawking

“For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind’s greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.”
– Stephen Hawking

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Patriotism – George Bernard Shaw

“Patriotism is the conviction that your country is superior to all others because you were born in it.”
– George Bernard Shaw

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Pleasure – Kierkegaard

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
– Søren Kierkegaard

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Life choices – Random Redditor

“Anxiety and depression can be the result of your unconscious mind withdrawing its approval of your life choices. Confidence comes from living in a way that you can be proud of.”
– Random Redditor

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Igni – Palindrome

“In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni”

‘We Go Round and Round in the Night and are Consumed by Fire’