12 July 2004
Don’t Even Think About It
“We cannot have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election, it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.”
— Abraham Lincoln
23 April 2004
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“We tried to build a community [web] site, but the members were only interested in talking with each other.”
18 April 2004
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“The truth is that most people fear and dislike money. They’re relieved not to be stuck with it, the responsibility, the need to consume, invest, recycle. It’s dirty, it’s ugly. It’s covered with engravings of people who you wouldn’t want in your house. Dead people. Royals who are the experts in the silent acquisition of all of the loose change in the universe. They’re born to it. It doesn’t embarrass them. They’re not fazed by creeping Masonic symbolism. If there is a conspiracy, they’re in it. The stuff is like a family album.”
— Iain Sinclair, Lights Out for the Territory
15 April 2004
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“The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.”
— Jean Baptiste Colbert,
finance minister to Louis XIV
11 April 2004
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“I might be making it up as I go along," said the leader, “but it's still true.”
— Victor Pelevin, “A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia”