P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.
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Any powerful technology can be abused.
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I don't have any comment on who the people of Russia choose to be their leaders.
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Do I exaggerate? Boy, do I, and I'd do it more if I could get away with it.
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I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.
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Diversity doesn't mean black and white only.
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Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.
