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America Is Slouching Towards Third World Status :

It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all... What is important? What you want to be true, or what is true?... Truthiness is "What I say is right, and [nothing] anyone else says could possibly be true."
-S.C.

P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a "learning experience." Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a "learning experience." It makes me feel less stupid.

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.

Yes, but what do you really think?

Jeremy Grantham:

It’s not that the former Fed boss Greenspan was incompetent
that is remarkable. Incompetence is common enough
after all, even in important jobs. What’s remarkable is
that so many people don’t seem, even now, to get it. Do
people just believe high-quality self-justifying blarney?
Or is it that they apparently want to believe that critical
jobs in a great country attract great talent by divine right.
Sometimes, of course, they do, but sometimes the most
important jobs – even that of a presidency or a Fed boss
– end up with mediocrities.

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Carlin on Irony

A diabetic, on his way to buy insulin, is killed by a runaway truck. He is the victim of an accident. If the truck was delivering sugar, he is the victim of an oddly poetic coincidence. But if the truck was delivering insulin, ah! Then he is a victim of an irony.

from The Big Book of Irony

"If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster."

PAUL B. FARRELL:

Since 1776 "too many Americans have twisted the sensible right to pursue happiness into the delusion that we are entitled to a guarantee of happiness," says Susan Jacoby in "The Age of American Unreason." "If we don't get exactly what we want, we assume someone must be violating our rights."

economic sound bites

Dorothy Parker quotes

"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."

"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to."

"I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true."

Quotes

“The last words of Jesus on the cross, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' hardly seem like the words of a man who planned it that way. It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure there is something wrong here."
-Rev. Donald Morgan


“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”
-Voltaire



"He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a
political career."
-George Bernard Shaw


"Nobody has ever bet enough on a winning horse."
-Richard Sasuly


"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault."
-Henry Kissinger