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Giving your book to Hollywood is like turning your daughter over to a pimp.


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The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.



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What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.



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Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.



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