Rick Bayan Quotes

#1. CHILDHOOD: The rapidly shrinking interval between infancy and first arrest on a drug or weapons charge.

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#2. Cynic: an idealist whose rose-colored glasses have been removed, snapped in two and stomped into the ground, immediately improving his vision

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#3. We're still just the world's premium brand of ape.

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#4. Communism: Liberation of the people from the burdens of liberty

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#5. Most people perceive moderates as timid middle-of-the-roaders who can't take a stand.

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#6. Corporation: a miniature totalitarian state governed by a hierarchy of unelected officials who take a dim view of individualism, free speech, equality and eggheads. The backbone of all Western democracies.

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#7. Math anxiety: an intense lifelong fear of two trains approaching each other at speeds of 60 and 80 MPH.

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#8. POWER: The ability to make our fellow humans squirm, sweat and stammer on command. Often regarded as an aphrodisiac; actually a potent laxative that, whenever ingested by people in high places, causes everyone below to run for cover.

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#9. REVOLUTIONARY: An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor.

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#10. The world belongs to people with IQs of 120. Anything much greater or less amounts to a liability.

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