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I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then

I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just cant sustain it. – Colin Quinn

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You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. Theres no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or youre finished. Its impossible to predict anything. – Colin Quinn

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So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation. – Colin Quinn

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I have always been very obsessed with time. Times passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone. – John Barton

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But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own – we leave them alone to crawl, walk, talk, and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents. – Daniel Greenberg

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What does it mean to not be alone? Ive approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means. – Jaron Lanier

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I believe in capitalism for everybody, not necessarily high finance but capitalism that works for the working men and women of this country who are out there paddling alone in America right now. – Rick Santorum

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Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man. – Nikita Khrushchev

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All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. – Antoine Rivarol

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment. – George Santayana

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