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You Survive By Having Your Fear Compass Calibrated Correctly. Our Compass Is Off Now Because We're Being Told To Be Afraid Of Everything. The Things That We're Frightened Of, Or Told To Be Frightened Of, Are Not Necessarily The Things That We Need To Fear.

-Michael Moore

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Michael Moore

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You Survive By Having Your Fear Compass Calibrated Correctly. Our Compass Is Off Now Because We're Being Told To Be Afraid Of Everything. The Things That We're Frightened Of, Or Told To Be Frightened Of, Are Not Necessarily The Things That We Need To Fear.

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I Say Stupid White Men Are Always The Problem. That's Never Going To Change.

I Had An Unusually Large-sized Head, Though This Was Not Uncommon For A Baby In The Midwest. The Craniums In Our Part Of The Country Were Designed To Leave A Little Extra Room For The Brain To Grow In Case One Day We Found Ourselves Exposed To Something We Didn't Understand, Like A Foreign Language, Or A Salad.

And Realising That Humour Is The Most Powerful Way To Make A Political Statement And Say The Things That You Want To Say. And It's Not Used Enough, At Least Not In The U.s.

I've Made A Lot Of Enemies In All The Right Places, And There Aren't Enough Hours In The Day To Respond To Either The Well-financed Corporate Hacks Or The Lowly Stalkers Who Seek To Libel Me Or Make A Buck Off The Fact That I'm A Well-known Person.

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You Can't Debate Satire. Either You Get It Or You Don't.

Well, "the Washington Post" Three Weeks Ago Had This Investigation And They Said That President Obama Has Now Raised More Money From Wall Street And The Banks For This Election Cycle Than All - Than All Eight Republicans Combined. I Don't Want To Say That, Because If That's The Truth, That Wall Street Already Has Their Man And His Name Is Barack Obama, Then We've Got A Much Bigger Problem.

In America, We Don't, In Daily Discourse, Use The Words 'capitalism' Or 'socialism.' They've Been Kind Of Nonexistent Words, I Would Say, Amongst The General Public.

We Live In The Time Where We Have Fictitious Election Results That Elects A Fictitious President. We Live In A Time Where We Have A Man Sending Us To War For Fictitious Reasons. Whether It's The Fictition Of Duct Tape Or Fictition Of Orange Alerts We Are Against This War, Mr. Bush. Shame On You. Mr. Bush, Shame On You. And Any Time You Got The Pope And The Dixie Chicks Against You, Your Time Is Up.

Nothing Seems Crueler--or More Ironic--than These Upper Crusters Who Never Pay A Dime For Their High-priced Shrinks Or Reflexology Sessions To Call Those Who Just Want That Tumor Removed From Their Uterus A Bunch Of Commies. Well, The Revolution Is At Hand And Let's Hope All Those Uninsured Commies Give The Rich Such A Headache That A Whole Bottle Of Advil Won't Be Enough To Take The Pain Way.

As Far As What I Do Love, I Love Birds; I Love Lavender.

In Spite Of Bush's Win, The Majority Of Americans Still Think The Country Is Headed In The Wrong Direction (56%), Think The War Wasn't Worth Fighting (51%), And Don't Approve Of The Job George W. Bush Is Doing (52%).

I Hate To Say It, But Killing Is Our Way. We Began America With Genocide, Then Built It With Slaves. The Shootings Will Continue. It's Who We Are.

Bush's Presidency Is Revisionism-proof. We're Going To Be Recovering From It For The Rest Of Our Lives.

You Can't Regulate Child Labor. You Can't Regulate Slavery. Some Things Are Just Wrong.

The Vast Majority Of The Guns In The U.s. Are Sold To White People Who Live In The Suburbs Or The Country. When We Fantasize About Being Mugged Or Home Invaded, What's The Image Of The Perpetrator In Our Heads? Is It The Freckled-face Kid From Down The Street - Or Is It Someone Who Is, If Not Black, At Least Poor?

I - Honestly, I Don't Know Of A Worse Lie One Could Tell Other Than A Lie To Take A Country To War. To Make Up Things To Take People To War. That's Just Got To Be The Most Obscene, Immoral Thing To Do.

Since 9/11, The Bush Administration Has Used That Tragic Event As A Justification To Rip Up Our Constitution And Our Civil Liberties. And I Honestly Believe That One Or Two 9/11s, And Martial Law Will Be Declared In Our Country And We're Inching Towards A Police State.

Horace's Best Ode Would Not Please A Young Woman As Much As The Mediocre Verses Of The Young Man She Is In Love With.

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