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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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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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That past is still within our living memory, a time when neighbour helped neighbour, sharing what little they had out of necessity,…
— Mary McAleese
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As far as many statistical series that are related to activities of mankind are concerned, the date that divides human history into…
— Kenneth E. Boulding
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I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory.…
— Wesley Clark
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Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple…
— Gaston Bachelard
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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when I will…
— Irvin D. Yalom
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The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in…
— Julian Assange
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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I was ecstatic when we won - to host the Olympics is one of the biggest opportunities in living memory. It will…
— Sebastian Coe
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When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it…
— Floyd Abrams
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