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Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.
John McCarthy
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When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.
John McCarthy
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Once a person has killed other people on behalf of an ideology, he becomes rather devoted to it.
John McCarthy
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If I owned Marseilles and Hell, I'd rent out Marseilles and live in Hell.
John McCarthy
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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'.
John McCarthy
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In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.
John McCarthy
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Hardly anyone has noticed that in the Northern Hemisphere people stir their drinks counterclockwise, whereas the same people stir their drinks clockwise when visiting the Southern Hemisphere.
John McCarthy
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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'.
John McCarthy
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Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different.
John McCarthy
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Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.
John McCarthy
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If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.
John McCarthy
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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.
John McCarthy
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