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" Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different. "
John McCarthy
Different
Golf
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" Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists. "
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" Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information. "
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" Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats. "
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" Compassion is contempt with a human face. "
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" My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling. "
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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. "
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" Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking. "
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" Suicidal terrorists may have short shelf lives. "
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" My opinion is that he's a swindler and you're a sucker. "
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" 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. "
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" It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into. "
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" The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'. "
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Trust
Thirty
" Language is froth on the surface of thought. "
John McCarthy
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Thought
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" His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web. "
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" When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising. "
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" Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions. "
John McCarthy
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Soccer
Sometimes
" We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries. "
John McCarthy
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Capitalism
Socialism
" Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig. "
John McCarthy
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Name
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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. "
John McCarthy
Work
Hard
Enough
" Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf. "
John McCarthy
Genocide
Fired
Jobs
" In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated. "
John McCarthy
Revenge
Been
Human
" He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense. "
John McCarthy
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He
Talk
" Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side. "
John McCarthy
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Troops
" If I owned Marseilles and Hell, I'd rent out Marseilles and live in Hell. "
John McCarthy
Rent
Hell
Owned
" 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. "
John McCarthy
Try
Talk
Hatred
" Once a person has killed other people on behalf of an ideology, he becomes rather devoted to it. "
John McCarthy
Person
Other
People
" Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor. "
John McCarthy
Honor
Thieves
Among
" Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out. "
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" With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish. "
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" When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace. "
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