P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.
P. J. O'Rourke
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My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.
Abraham Lincoln
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There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.
Carl Lewis
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You have to understand that I'm not just some guy who voices characters in animated movie and TV shows.
Jack McBrayer
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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
Walt Whitman
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I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
Harold Wilson
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A career is a job you love, right? That's what a career should be. If you're in a job that you hate, you should quit. That's the way I look at it. I'm in a job that I love, so I'm going to make it my career.
Cameron Sinclair
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I feel like I have to move violently once a day, or I'll lose my mind.
Adam Driver
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The Spirit never makes men the instruments of converting others until they feel that they cannot do it themselves; that their skill in argument, in persuasion, in management, avails nothing.
Charles Hodge
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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
Samuel Butler
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Constantius decreed that any Christian who converted to Judaism was to have his property entirely confiscated (Theodosian Code 16.8.8).
Under Theodosius I it was declared that any Christian who married a Jew would be guilty of the crime of adultery
In the early fifth century, Jews were deprived of the right to serve in the imperial service. Later it became illegal for Jews to build or even repair a synagogue.
In sum, anyone who did not subscribe to the “apostolic discipline and the evangelic doctrine” that promoted the theologically correct understanding of the Trinity (this would include Arians of various kinds) was legally pronounced “demented and insane” and was to “be smitten first by divine vengeance and secondly by the retribution of Our own initiative, which We shall assume in accordance with the divine judgment” (Theodosian Code 16.1.2).
Bart Ehrman
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It was my first day at work - and beginning my training on the job, I was given the job of writing cheques and entering their details. The branch was surrounded by hordes of people... soon, they had to close the gates to manage the crowds, and they started pushing in.
Arundhati Bhattacharya
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Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.
P. J. O'Rourke
