P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
Nargis Fakhri
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Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I couldn't read them fast enough.
Tamora Pierce
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
Abraham Lincoln
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I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.
Walton Goggins
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When I watch Rumble Johnson, he's a bully. He bullies guys. He makes them go backward, and he traps them. I'm not going to allow that. If he tries to bully me, I'll stand right in front of him, and if he hits me, I'll hit him right back. And then we'll see how the bully handles it when nobody is going to run away from him.
Daniel Cormier
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Beginning in the late 18th century, some German scholars began to regard Holy Scripture not as a single revelation but a sequence of inspired texts that occurred in specific times and places and were subject to varied and multiple meanings.
Jay Parini
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While I am watching over you, no great need will overcome you. be mindful of the name of the Trinity And none shall overcome you.
Taliesin
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Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical deduction—studying nothing. In the Middle Ages, the great minds capable of transforming the world did not study the world; and so, for most of a millennium, as human beings screamed in agony—decaying from starvation, eaten by leprosy and plague, dying in droves in their twenties—the men of the mind, who could have provided their earthly salvation, abandoned them for otherworldly fantasies.
Andrew Bernstein
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The right way to deal with a budget problem that was years in the making is by formulating a credible plan to reduce the deficit over time and as the economy is able to withstand the necessary fiscal belt-tightening. That is what President Obama is doing.
Christina Romer
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Classical music presents some of the world's most challenging pieces.
Jake Shimabukuro
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Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.
P. J. O'Rourke
