#out

So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our servants, our slaves. It's an empire. There's no two ways about it. It's a huge empire. It's been extremely successful. ↗

— John Perkins

#back #basically #become #been #big

The only way that we're going to feel secure in this country again and that we're going to feel good about ourselves is if we use these systems we've put into place to create positive change around the world. I really believe we can do that. ↗

— John Perkins

#again #around #believe #change #country

When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over. ↗

— John Perkins

#culture #day #detector #found #immediately

About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#area #came #children #parents #polish

The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#early #hard #i #learned #me

It's very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it's really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music. ↗

— Tom Petty

#beautiful #beautiful thing #cynical #dedicated #easy

It's better to burn out, then to fade away. ↗

— Tom Petty

#better #burn #fade #out #then

Many South African tribes used extracts from the African bush willow to heal the sick. ↗

— Bob Pettit

#bush #extracts #heal #many #sick

They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there. ↗

— Adam Petty

#hop #line #out #really #up

Now they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody. ↗