John McCarthy
John McCarthy
rarely slogans troops
Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side.
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My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling.
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In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.
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Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor.
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The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'.
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There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them.
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Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.
doomed refuses
He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.
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Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions.
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The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world's most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement.
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A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot.
Language is froth on the surface of thought.
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There are no surprises in this case, ... You could read The Washington Post and know what the evidence is.