"Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators……" — P.J. O'Rourke
"Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society."
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578 Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
P.J. O'Rourke has 578 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it…
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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…
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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…
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You can smoke or drink on a golf course without interrupting the game, and you can take a leak -…
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More Expectancy Quotes
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An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look…
— Fred Allen
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Creative power is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic yet undifferentiated substance can…
— Thomas Troward
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A state of expectancy is a great assetl; a state of uncertainty-one moment thinking "perhaps" and the next moment thinking…
— Ernest Holmes
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In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.
— Martin Luther
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As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an…
— Richard J. Foster
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Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am…
— Robert Breault
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It is almost always a greater pleasure to come across a semicolon than a period. The period tells you that…
— Lewis Thomas
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What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak,…
— Wayne Dyer
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I left Paramount at the ripe young age of sixty. A generation ago, that would have been retirement age. But…
— Sherry Lansing
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An empty canvas, apparently really empty, that says nothing and is without significance – almost dull, in fact – in…
— Wassily Kandinsky
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A flower's fragrance declares to all the world that it is fertile, available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with…
— Diane Ackerman
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We've got to make sure our younger workers understand that as life expectancy increases, the retirement date for benefits increases…
— Ken Buck
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