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I recall a comment by kimmy a year or two ago in which she described the Spanish captain in Pan's Labyrinth as one of the scariest movie villains she had ever seen, a characterization that has stuck with me. At one point, he smashes in a man's face with the bottom edge of a bottle of booze in front of the guy's father. It was bloody and very disturbing...

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With all the enthusiasm for Brick Top and Darth Vader,

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I think characters like the Mayan king and the high priest in Apocalypto chillingly capture the sort of very real self-serving villainy that most human beings are likely to feel and be directly affected by.

A government without public oversight is like a nuclear plant without lead shielding.

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I think characters like the Mayan king and the high priest in Apocalypto chillingly capture the sort of very real self-serving villainy that most human beings are likely to feel and be directly affected by.

Yeah, power as having deranging properties...until power itself becomes a derangement.

After reading Bertrand Russell's thoughts on Power, I think there is a lot of truth to this.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

--Josh Billings

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:lol::lol::lol:

I see that and raise you this

That is the funniest thing I've seen in days!

"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."

-- George Bernard Shaw

"There is no point in being difficult when, with a little extra effort, you can be completely impossible."

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