John McLaughlin Quotes
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
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Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
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You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.
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It's a lot easier to see, at least in some cases, what the long-term limits of the possible will be, because they depend on natural law. But it's much harder to see just what path we will follow in heading toward those limits.
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Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
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I seem to have very polite fans, not fanatical ones.
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The original settlers in Iceland were the nobles of Norway who left their native land to avoid the tyranny of Harold Fairhair, who tried to crush their power so as to make himself a despotic king in the land.
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My philosophy is, unless you're sick and need help, why bother?
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He who aims at making an entire and perfect oblation of himself, in addition to his will, must offer his understanding, which is a further and the highest degree of obedience.
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I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't graduate from college. I don't care who she is or what she does. Just get the diploma.
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Having fun is a dismal business after you pass fifty.
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The rest of the world in which I lived was still stumbling about in search of a weapon with which to exterminate this monster homosexuality whose shape and size were not yet known or even guessed at. It was thought to be Greek in origin, smaller than socialism but more deadly, especially to children.
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Sometimes I have a feeling, when I look back on my life, that all I’ve been through has prepared me perfectly for just what I’m doing now.
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It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.
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I knew my reporting would be validated eventually.
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There would have been no Beats deal without the Samsung deal. It showed the number one company the importance of connecting with culture.
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Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
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Nonviolence is a powerful as well as a just weapon. If you confront a man who has long been cruelly misusing you, and say, "Punish me, if you will; I do not deserve it, but I will accept it, so that the world will know I am right and you are wrong," then you wield a powerful and a just weapon. This man, your oppressor, is automatically morally defeated, and if he has any conscience, he is ashamed.
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Bankruptcy is a serious decision that people have to make.
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It's terrible when I go somewhere, and I'm not recognized.
