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Practical Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
- Collectivism doesn't work because it's based on a faulty economic premise. There is no such thing as a person's "fair share" of wealth. The gross…
- When a couple decides to divorce, they should inform both sets of parents before having a party and telling all their friends. This is not…
- The only really good vegetable is Tabasco sauce. Put Tabasco sauce in everything. Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin. The…
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- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
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- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart… — G. Stanley Hall
- Gradually, ... the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power… — Bertrand Russell
- Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of… — Peter Singer
- I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
- The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in… — Lord Acton