P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Advocating the expansion of the powers of the state is treason to mankind, goddamnit!
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Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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All mankind love a lover.
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Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
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We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.
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I am a danger to myself if I get angry.
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If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
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Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
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I love my dad, and I'm proud to be his daughter.
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I got into writing music when I was, like, 14 or 15. It was a very private thing for me because I used it as an outlet and emotional release. I kept it very close to myself and didn't tell too many people about it.
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Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
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I do not believe in a God who maliciously or arbitrarily interferes in the personal affairs of mankind. My religion consists of an humble admiration for the vast power which manifests itself in that small part of the universe which our poor, weak minds can grasp!
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A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels.
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Like most people, I have a dark side, but because of roles I played early on, people tend not to guess that.
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You know, even though I feel that I can still play the game, God has made the answer clear to me. Retirement is now. I have to retire as a Green Bay Packer.
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I want nothing to do with privilege.
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Jesus said, 'Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's,' and part of that was to go to war, protecting whatever nation was under control of the king. I wouldn't agree with any interpretation of Scripture that was used to say that a man or a woman shouldn't protect their families.
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In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited fury that men are prepared to put on uniforms and kill and be killed, for the sake of the sordid ends of a few interested parties. Compulsory military service seems to me the most disgraceful symptom of that deficiency in personal dignity from which civilized mankind is suffering today.
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If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the delicate art of handling ideas. Psychology is now able to tell us with reasonable assurance that the most influential obstacle to freedom of thought and to new ideas is fear; and fear which can with inimitable art disguise itself as caution, or sanity, or reasoned skepticism, or on occasion even as courage.
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Basketball is basketball.
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I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.
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All that Shakespeare says of the king, yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of himself.
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Advocating the expansion of the powers of the state is treason to mankind, goddamnit!
