George Jean Nathan
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Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a brand
of beer exactly to his taste he should at once throw up his job
and go to work in the brewery.
- Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate
above principles.
Scott Nearing
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During the whole period of written history, it is not the workers
but the robbers who have been in control of the world.
H. Richard Neibuhr
- From the Nicene symbol, formulated at the instance of Constantine,
to the Westminster Confession, which was framed by an assembly of
divines who had been selected, appointed and maintained by the Long
Parliaments, the major creeds of Christendom have been born of the
union of church and state.
Ted Nelson
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Everything is deeply intertwingled.
Mabel Newcomer
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It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly.
Do not mistake activity for achievement.
Harold Nicolson
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- We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals;
others by their acts.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?
Albert Jay Nock
- There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs
and desires can be satisfied.
One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means.
The other is the
uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the
political means.
Bill Nye
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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
Austin O'Malley
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We smile at the women who are eagerly following the fashions in
dress whilst we are eagerly following the fashions in thought.
- The reason there are so many imbeciles among imprisoned
criminals is that an imbecile is so foolish even a detective
can detect him.
- Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.
Aristotle Onassis
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If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
Eugene O'Neill
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For de little stealin' dey gits you in jail soon ar late.
For de big stealin' dey makes you emperor and puts you in
de Hall o' Fame when you croaks.
Connecticut governor William O'Neil
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People don't want handouts! People want hand jobs!
P. J. O’Rourke
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Modern lamps were the product of Modern Design, which was the
product of Modern Art, a product that turned ugly because its
producers thought art should constantly change. Art quickly ran
out of things to change into that weren’t stupid.
- Swedish subway stations are each decorated by a different
contemporary artist and raise the question, Which is worse:
vandalism or modern art?
Children
- "Children," says Mrs. Clinton, "are like the tiny figures at
the center of the nesting dolls for which Russian folk artists
are famous. The children are cradled in the family, which is
primarily responsible for their passage from infancy to adulthood.
But around the family are the larger settings of paid informers,
secret police, corrupt bureaucracy, and a prison gulag."
(words in italics added)
- It takes a village to raise a child. The village is Washington.
You are the child.
- Who is Morris Freud? Sigmund’s lesser-known cousin, also a
psychiatrist. He had a theory that there was an aspect to the
psyche even more important than the subconscious. He called it
"consciousness," the idea being that we sometimes know what we’re doing.
It’s never been proven.
- And the nonconformists long ago exhausted the supply of stuff
with which not to conform. They’ve been reduced to wearing tongue studs.
- Wine--indeed, all booze--tastes horrid. This is because of the alcohol.
Alcohol’s flavor is so bad that no one would ever drink an alcoholic
beverage--unless, of course, it contained alcohol.
- A world government run by the UN will be like getting an old,
purblind, half-deaf substitute teacher.
- Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian
countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.
- ... in 1929 when stocks were crashing, banks were collapsing,
and President Hoover was hoovering around. Pretty soon you could
buy the New York Central Railroad for a wooden nickel, except
nobody could afford wood. People had to make their own nickels
at home out of old socks, which had also been boiled, along with
the one remaining family shoe, to make last night's dinner.
So kids had to walk to school with pots and pans on their feet
through miles of deep snow because no one had the money for good weather.
My generation has heard about this in great detail from our parents,
which is why we put them in nursing homes.
- Samuelson continues: "Marx was wrong about many things ... but
that does not diminish his stature as an important economist."' Well,
what would? If Marx was wrong about many things and screwed the
baby-sitter?
- I begin by proposing that we Republicans take a step back from
our partisanship and give a moment’s thought to the decent,
well-meaning, intelligent people who oppose us--and how there
aren’t any.
- "Curing poverty equals allowing people to get rich." This very
simple truth has eluded some of the deepest thinkers in the world's
advanced nations.
- In his review of the book Guidelines for Bias-Free Writing,
O’Rourke observes: "The authors deprecate commonsense standards
of good: ‘Designating countries as undeveloped or
underdeveloped implies an evolutionary hierarchy of nations
based on wealth, type of economy, and degree of industrialization."
Of course it does, you feebleminded idiots.
- When other people get mixed up about the notion that you
are your personal property, when they start thinking they own
you, the consequences are horrendous: slave trade, the draft, my
first marriage.
- Women are successful in the business world because the business
world was created by men. Men are babies. And women are ... good
with kids.
- There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind
your own business. Keep your hands to
yourself.
- If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see
what it costs when it’s free.
- There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you
damn well please. And with it comes the
only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
Danny Ozark
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Half this game is ninety percent mental.
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