Notably Quotable: “”There’s nothing in the middle of the road but …”

 

“There’s nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.” 

— Jim Hightower

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“Jill Biden may have settled for her husband, but I’m not sure why anyone else should.”

— Sarah Jones, columnist, New York Magazine.

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“The nation is still reeling from two mass shootings. The financial markets are yo-yoing by hundreds of points. A bomb in Afghanistan, where we’re still at war, killed 63 revelers at a wedding. Tension between the United States and Iran continues to mount. North Korea keeps testing new missiles. India is playing with fire in Kashmir. Hong Kong has been convulsed for months by massive protests seeking to guarantee basic freedoms. And Trump obsesses about buying Greenland.”

— Eugene Robinson, Trump is panicking because ‘his reality show sees cancellation on the horizon’

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“The upper class: keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle class: pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. The poor are there…just to scare the shit out of the middle class.”
-~ George Carlin

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“If we have the courage to think big, if we have the courage to take on the greed of the powerful special interests who dominate our economic and political life … If we stand together for a common purpose, we can fulfill that dream.”

— Bernie Sanders

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“As a practical matter, in the routine lexicon of U.S. mass media, “moderate” actually means pro-corporate and reliably unwilling to disrupt the dominant power structures. “Moderate” is a term of endearment in elite circles, a label conferred on politicians who won’t rock establishment boats.”
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“In the final analysis, we always have two choices: We can choose to descend into pessimism and apathy, assuming that nothing can be done, and helping to ensure that the worst will happen. Or we can grasp the opportunities that exist — and they do — and pursue them to the extent that we can, thus helping to contribute to a better world. Not a very hard choice.”
— Noam Chomsky

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“Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”

― Albert Einstein