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  1. "The psychology of leaders is of little interest. The institutional factors that constrain their actions are what merit attention."-Chomsky
  2. "The scale of [government] covert operatons is often a good measure of popular dissidence" - Noam Chomky
  3. No one knows how to write a classic. But one way to fail is to aim to write a classic.
  4. "When the music goes everywhere, it also goes nowhere." - Roger Scruton
  5. There's a reason Mata Hari is a famous spy. She was a bad spy.
  6. Stalking is to love as rape is to sex.
  7. "The hands that help are better far than the lips that pray." - Robert Green Ingersoll
  8. "As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents." - George Orwell
  9. "Ageing isn't fun, but it's better than death, by at least, ooh . . . 8%" - Charlie Brooker
  10. "That a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - G.B.Shaw
  11. Great intellects are usually moral. Immoral intellects are rarely great.
  12. One mark of an inferior thinker is the need to caricature opponents to defeat them, even if the strawman is not needed to do this.
  13. To defeat an opponent in argument. To win them over. The same process, different goals.
  14. "Is there anything more irritating than a 20-year-old incapable of uttering the words 'I don't know'?" - Andrew Corsello
  15. Drugs are for the artist's inspiration and the audiance's appreciation. Creation and performance should be sober.
  16. Teach a man to love and he might love your enemy. Teach him to hate and he may hate you. So teach him to fear.
  17. "We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men" - George Orwelll
  18. Anyone who tries to inspire you is selling you something.
  19. Soldiers are never inspired by philosophers, unless the philosopher is also a soldier.
  20. The correct response to most opinons is derision. If the opinion holder takes it personally, the correct response to them is also derision.