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#1

“Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.”
― T.S. Eliot

tags: the-cocktail-party

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#2

“Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.”
― P.J. O'Rourke, All the Trouble in the World

tags: altruism, dishes, earth, help, mom, save

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#3

“The average IQ in America is—and this can be proven mathematically—average.”
― P.J. O'Rourke

tags: averages, humour, iq-tests, maths

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#4

“The free market is ugly and stupid, like going to the mall; the unfree market is just as ugly and just as stupid, except there is nothing in the mall and if you don't go there they shoot you.”
― P.J. O'Rourke

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#5

“No one has ever had a fantasy about being tied to a bed and sexually ravished by someone dressed as a liberal”
― P.J. O'Rourke, Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer

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#6

“I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.”
― William F. Buckley Jr.

tags: hypocrisy

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#7

“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.”
― William F. Buckley

tags: liberalism, liberals, politics

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#8

“The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a few ounces of marijuana in their jeans simply makes no sense - the kindest way to put it. A sterner way to put it is that it is an outrage, an imposition on basic civil liberties and on the reasonable expenditure of social energy.”
― William F. Buckley

tags: civil-liberties, civil-rights, drug-laws, drugs, marijuana, prohibition

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#9

“Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them”
― William F. Buckley

tags: politics

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#10

“I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.”
― William F. Buckley Jr.

tags: democracy, diversity, political-philosophy

91 likes

#11

“I would like to take you seriously but to do so would affront your intelligence.”
― William F. Buckley Jr.

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#12

“Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.”
― William F. Buckley Jr.

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#13

“Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.”
― William F. Buckley Jr.

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#14

“Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.”
― William F. Buckley Jr.

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#15

“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
― Anaïs Nin

tags: men, women

9427 likes

#16

“The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.”
― Julia Child

tags: dieting, diets, eating, food, joy-of-life, steak

846 likes

#17

“The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.”
― Julia Child

tags: cooking, food

560 likes

#18

“If you're afraid of butter, use cream.”
― Julia Child

tags: attributed-no-source, cholesterol, food

340 likes

#19

“Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.”
― Julia Child

1530 likes

#20

“You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.”
― Julia Child

tags: education, lifelong-learning, love

312 likes

#21

“This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!”
― Julia Child, My Life in France

253 likes

#22

“I think every woman should have a blowtorch.”
― Julia Child

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#23

“Life itself is the proper binge.”
― Julia Child

tags: food, life

170 likes

#24

“How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?”
― Julia Child

tags: bread, food, usa

221 likes

#25

“...nothing is too much trouble if it turns out the way it should.”
― Julia Child, My Life in France

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#26

“Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.”
― Julia Child

tags: cooking

194 likes

#27

“You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.”
― Julia Child

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#28

“Fat gives things flavor.”
― Julia Child

tags: food

128 likes

#29

“It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.”
― Julia Child

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#30

“...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.”
― Julia Child, My Life in France

tags: cooking

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