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• Perhaps the most widespread illusion is that if we were in power we would behave very differently from those who now hold it -- whe
  in truth, in order to get power we would have to become very much like them....
• I resent 'experts' who have never faced deadly threat, yet who tell me - and you - that we should not consider a response of equal power against those who would threaten our lives.
  -- Massad Ayoob, 'The Truth About Self Protection'...
• Everybody has sex now. When I was a kid only women had sex and you had to get it from them.
  We got a battery-powered sexual aid. Actually, a flashlight....
• But I find the old notions somehow appealing. Not that I want to go back to them -- it is outrageous to have some outer authority tell you what is proper use and abuse of your own facultie
  and it is ludicrous to hold reason higher than body or feeling....
• 1. Some folks have it, some don't. 2. Those who have it would be devastated if it were ever cut off.
  3. Those who have it think that those who don't are somehow inferior....
• Well, I would -- if they realized that we -- again if -- if we led them back to that stalemate only because our retaliatory powe
  our seconds, or strike at them after our first strike, would be so destructive they they couldn't afford it, that would hold them off....
• Well, I would -- if they realized that we -- again if -- if we led them back to that stalemate only because our retaliatory powe
  our seconds, or strike at them after our first strike, would be so destructive they they couldn't afford it, that would hold them off....