"The Communist bloc of old was a study……" — P.J. O'Rourke
"The Communist bloc of old was a study in the failure of failure. Losers in the Soviet economy were the people at the end of the long lines for consumer goods. Worse losers were the people who had spent hours getting to the head of the line, only to be told that the goods were unavailable."
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578 Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
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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 Bloc Quotes
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The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of…
— David Cameron
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Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc…
— Tony Campolo
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If you have a large bloc of Americans who believe you're trying to keep their ... fellow Hispanics down and…
— John McCain
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The black man in North America was sickest of all politically. He let the white man divide him into such…
— Malcolm X
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Whenever any group can vote in a bloc, and decide the outcome of elections, and it fails to do this,…
— Malcolm X
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I have a dream that Africa should have one bloc - north to south - we could trade freely, people…
— Unknown Author
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Finally, I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end; where all men and all churches are treated…
— John F. Kennedy
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I believe strongly and sincerely that with the deep-rooted wisdom and dignity, the innate respect for human lives, the intense…
— Kwame Nkrumah
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I always felt that the Cubans were being pushed into the Soviet Bloc by American policy.
— Lee Harvey Oswald
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And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly…
— Samuel P. Huntington
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You ask people what their ethnicity is, and a lot of Scots-Irish people either don't know or if they know…
— John Shelton Reed
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Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms.
— Lucas Papademos
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