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" Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard at them for money. "

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" Don't try to talk anyone out of concentrating his hatred on Ayn Rand or any other dead person. It can't harm the dead. Diverted to a living person, it might actually do harm. "

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" If I owned Marseilles and Hell, I'd rent out Marseilles and live in Hell. "

" Hardly anyone has noticed that in the Northern Hemisphere people stir their drinks counterclockwise, whereas the same people stir their drinks clockwise when visiting the Southern Hemisphere. "

" Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions. "

" Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig. "

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" A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot. "

" The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'. "

" With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish. "

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" An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice. "

" Compassion is contempt with a human face. "

" Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different. "

" He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense. "

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Talk

" My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling. "

" Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more. "

John McCarthy

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Never

" My opinion is that he's a swindler and you're a sucker. "

John McCarthy

You

Sucker

" When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace. "

" If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments. "

" Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance. "

" The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world's most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement. "

" An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth. "

" His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web. "

" Hard distinctions make bad philosophy. "

" Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf. "

" There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them. "

" The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'. "

" Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out. "

" Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side. "

" Suicidal terrorists may have short shelf lives. "

" In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated. "

" Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats. "