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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We always work at least a month to six weeks before we go on the road, usually for something like eight to 12 hours a night. It took six weeks to do it this time. We just play virtually everything we know.
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When we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present ... we experience heaven on earth.
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It's not easy starting a label and putting out your own records. It's required me at times to humble myself and really push and work hard to try to give this the best shot. I really want to share this with the world.
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Me being so open just helps other people. People feel like they know me so much that they can talk to me all of the time about really personal things. Sometimes it's really nice and comforting. It depends on the person, whether they're creepy or not.
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I think a lot of the basis of the open source movement comes from procrastinating students.
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It's terrible when I go somewhere, and I'm not recognized.
