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" With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish. "
John McCarthy
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" If I owned Marseilles and Hell, I'd rent out Marseilles and live in Hell. "
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" Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace. "
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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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" 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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" Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information. "
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Lack
Matter
Information
" In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated. "
John McCarthy
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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. "
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Same
" 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. "
John McCarthy
Forgetting
Society
Forget
" 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. "
John McCarthy
Reading
True
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" Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking. "
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More People
Than
More
" Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side. "
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Your
Convince
Troops
" Once a person has killed other people on behalf of an ideology, he becomes rather devoted to it. "
John McCarthy
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Other
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" Suicidal terrorists may have short shelf lives. "
John McCarthy
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" If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments. "
John McCarthy
Need
Attention
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" 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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Socialism
" An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth. "
John McCarthy
Youth
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" Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats. "
John McCarthy
Amateur
Than
Worse
" He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense. "
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Nonsense
He
Talk
" My opinion is that he's a swindler and you're a sucker. "
John McCarthy
You
Sucker
He
" His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web. "
John McCarthy
Ambition
Wide
His
" Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor. "
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Honor
Thieves
Among
" Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out. "
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" Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf. "
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" Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig. "
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