“How are the internal complications, anyway? Aren’t the other branches of government getting a little suspicious about all these machinations?”
“Let’s just say that one or two discreet assassinations may still have to be performed,” Khouri said.
Source: Redemption Ark (2002), Chapter 27 (p. 490)
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"Notes about Music" (29 March 1946) also quoted in Ramblin' Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie (2004) by Ed Cray
Context: No matter how bad the wicked world has hurt you, in the long run, there is something gained, and it is all for the best … The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine, a working machine, and any song that says, the pleasures I have seen in all of my trouble, are the things I never can get — don't worry — the human race will sing this way as long as there is a human to race.
The human race is a pretty old place.
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2010s, 2018, Interview with Bill Kristol (2018)
Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 14, “Phoenix Lake” (p. 750)
1960s, Address to Cornell College (1962)
“Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak.”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches