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P.J. O'Rourke has 585 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
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Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for…
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Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.
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The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don't actually go outdoors much,…
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There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it comes our…
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A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
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Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.
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Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is…
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Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.
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Remember, your body needs 6 to 8 glasses of fluid daily. Straight up or on the rocks.
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Whatever the occasion, do not neglect alcohol. No other refreshment will do. Yes, alcohol kills brain cells, but it's very selective. It…
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You can smoke or drink on a golf course without interrupting the game, and you can take a leak - something you…
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It is easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite pet. People like pets to possess…
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I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good…
— G. H. Hardy
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I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.
— Nicolas Malebranche
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Whereas students minds used to be the chief concern of colleges and universities, it is now more their bank accounts (more accurately,…
— George Leef
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Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided…
— Lewis Thomas
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Have you heard anything useful come out of an actor's mouth lately?
— Bruce Willis
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Anyone who does anything useful will not go unpaid.
— Henry Ford
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Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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The universal soul is the alone creator of the useful and the beautiful; therefore to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you don't have anything useful to say then you attack people. If you feel that your house of cards has been…
— Benjamin Carson
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Why should anyone be afraid of change? What can take place without it? What can be more pleasing or more suitable to…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say.
— Mark Zandi
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