Project Artichoke Quotes

#1. Can we get control of an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against fundamental laws of nature such as self preservation? (CIA Document, Project ARTICHOKE, MORI ID 144686, 1952)
As cited by Dr Ellen P. Lacter, p57

Orit Badouk Epstein

#2. Some things are just so sad they break your soul, not your heart

Susan Williams

#3. The hardest part about rollerblading is telling your parents you're gay.

Aziz Ansari

#4. This aged economic system is out of date!

Severn Cullis-Suzuki

#5. Stop trying to change someone who does not want to change. Stop giving chances to someone who abuses your forgiveness. Stop walking back to the place where your heart ran from. Stop trusting their words and ignoring their actions. Stop breaking your own heart.

Trent Shelton

#6. The most we can ever do is our best," she said quietly. "If worry is interest paid on troubles we haven't had yet, guilt is pain wasted on what can't be changed."
"Please remind me of that regularly. I need to hear it.

Mary Jo Putney

#7. The meaning of words had no longer the same relation to things ... Reckless daring was held to be loyal courage; prudent delay was the excuse of a coward; moderation was the disguise of unmanly weakness; to know everything was to do nothing. Frantic energy was the true quality of man.

Thucydides

#8. For a developing country, average long-run growth of 5 percent a year per capita is excellent, and 7 percent is stellar.

Alex Berenson

#9. When you figure it right down, none of us are in a really essential business but the farmer, and he raises so much that even his business is partly non-essential.

Will Rogers

#10. Labor is the law of happiness.

Abel Stevens

#11. In a society that says, "Put yourself last," self-love and self-acceptance are almost revolutionary. If

Brene Brown

#12. Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.

Joseph Joubert

#13. Somehow, even outside the library and our clearing in the woods, we were still in our own world. Everything else could fade away, and he and I would remain, tied together by something I couldn't quite expline. In its simplest term, love.

Rachel Schieffelbein

#14. Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#15. How do these people have any credibility? How do they get away with this? It's mind boggling that its gotten to a point where the EPA is dictating policy based on what is an obvious fraud, or if you want to be gentle about it, creates enough doubt to back off.

Joe Bastardi