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| 421f735 | Mao asks Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping, "How do you get a cat to bite a hot pepper?" Zhou says, "You hold him down, pry his jaws open, and shove the pepper into his mouth." Mao says, "No, that's force. We want the cat to bite the pepper of his own free will." Deng says, "You take the pepper, wrap it in a delicious piece of fish, and, before he knows it, the cat has bitten the pepper." Mao says, "No, that's trickery. We want the cat to know h.. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| ad98a3a | According to the magazine there are currently 1,810 billionaires. Their combined net worth is $6.5 trillion. The proposed 2017 U.S. federal budget is $4.2 trillion. All the billionaires on earth put together could--if Washington is careful not to have any budget overruns--keep America going for eighteen months. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| 59a74cc | If we take all the money away from every billionaire and divide that $6.5 trillion by the world's population of 7.125 billion, we each get a check for $912.28. I just searched auto.com. You can get a 1998 Chevy Lumina with 180,000 miles for $999 in beige (although the door color does not seem to match the fender). But everybody knows that all the money in the world | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| b355976 | The world's richest man pulled Microsoft out of his butt. All Bill Gates exploited was a line of 0s and 1s as long as a piece of string. Now Microsoft employs 118,000 people. Number six on the rich list, Mark Zuckerberg, created Facebook out of less than that. All Mark had was a dumb idea that all the stupid people want to tell every stupid thing about their lives to all the other stupid people. Current net worth of the person with that dum.. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| 1c90d79 | Liberal institutions straightway cease from being liberal the moment they are soundly established: once this is attained no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| d3c8891 | President Clinton commenced the blathering with orotund | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| 2b0c65c | There is no virtue in compulsory government charity. And no virtue in advocating it. A politician who commends himself as "caring" and "sensitive" because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money. Who isn't? A voter who takes pride in supporting such programs is telling us that he'll do good with his own money--if a gun is held to his head." | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| a44e1f8 | The free market is the greatest repository of our freedoms. Economic freedom is the freedom we exercise most often and to the greatest extent. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| 2143310 | The best way to have a good political system is to avoid politics. But political disengagement deprives us of opportunities for bitching at politicians and pushing them around. This is occasionally useful and always a pleasure. In our democracy we don't get in trouble by trying to make politicians mad. We get in trouble by trying to make them like us. Our political system goes to hell when we want it to give us things. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| 38eedc3 | Political pundits are under professional obligation to regard the obvious as being too obvious. | politics punditry pundits | P. J. O'Rourke | |
| 9c9b655 | If there's something we want, politics shouldn't be our first resort. Politics is all taking, no making. Whatever politics provides for us will be obtained from other people. Those people won't love us. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| b941b53 | Americans appreciate bad taste or America wouldn't look the way America does. | bad-taste taste americans | P. J. O'Rourke | |
| b96abed | And, Donald, the end of your necktie belongs up around your belt buckle, not between your knees and your nuts. Trump's haircut makes Kim Jong Un laugh. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| 528863a | The three branches of government number considerably more than three and are not, in any sense, "branches" since that would imply that there is something they are all attached to besides self-aggrandizement and our pocketbooks." | politics humor government | P.J. O'Rourke | |
| f5e1e96 | being specific is the essence of lawmaking and the whole difference between having a Congress and having a mom. | lawmaking nanny-state | P.J. O'Rourke | |
| 41d0ccd | And crazy old people will be to blame for whichever spawn of Satan slithers its way into the Oval Office. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| 56d8355 | In the words of P.J. O'Rourke, war is a great asshole magnet | Greg Campbell | ||
| 50b0268 | Neither conservatives nor humorists believe man is good. But left-wingers do. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| 30ccda3 | These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| ad29c30 | The American Rebellion," about our founding fathers. Not till their foes were driven forth By England o'er the main-- Not till the Frenchman from the North Had gone with shattered Spain; Not till the clean-swept oceans showed No hostile flag unrolled, Did they remember that they owed To Freedom--and were bold!" | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| cfd5016 | You know the Fun-Suckers. You may be married to one. The Fun-Suckers go around saying how unsafe this fun thing is and how unhealthy that fun thing is and how unfair, unjust, uncaring, insensitive, divisive, contagious, and fattening every other thing that's fun is. The Fun-Suckers are a bit too careful, a bit too concerned, a bit too scrupulous. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| a3ed7ee | Bahala na," as the Filipinos say, which is an untranslatable phrase containing the same germ of philosophy as the Arabic "inshalla" or the Spanish "manana" or the English "you must have me mixed up with somebody who gives a shit"." | languages | P.J. O'Rourke | |
| aa3fdd0 | pg 132 '...the one and only time in his career he'd been tempted to draw his weapon was when a swarm of gnats had descended on him in the motel parking lot. And what was so wrong about killing all the insects? Who cared if the frogs died with them? The only thing frogs were good for was keeping the insect population down, and clearly they were lousy at that. | P.J. Tracy | ||
| cb069ee | And the heart gets watered and recovers itself. There is hope, everywhere there is hope. | Maxine Swann | ||
| 1d870d2 | Amor significa cierto orden, y no es orden lo que uno quiere cuando te has acostumbrado a vivir ta contento en el caos | Campbell Black James Kahn Rob MacGregor | ||
| 5251d2a | El tiempo es algo que dscubrias en los secretos que habia ido enterando | Campbell Black James Kahn Rob MacGregor | ||
| 7074858 | In the shock of the moment, I gave some thought to renting a convertible and driving the twenty-seven hundred miles back alone. But then I realized I was neither single nor crazy. The acting director decided that, given the FBI's continuing responsibility for my safety, the best course was to take me back on the plane I came on, with a security detail and a flight crew who had to return to Washington anyway. We got in the vehicle to head fo.. | James Comey | ||
| 6c11b60 | What about this idea of good and evil in mythology, of life as a conflict between the forces of darkness and the forces of light? CAMPBELL: That is a Zoroastrian idea, which has come over into Judaism and Christianity. In other traditions, good and evil are relative to the position in which you are standing. What is good for one is evil for the other. And you play your part, not withdrawing from the world when you realize how horrible it is.. | Joseph Campbell | ||
| e0bc15c | Some people believe that Moore's Law will continue to be accurate until about 2015. | Charles Petzold | ||
| 9fab73e | Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick. | Charles Petzold | ||
| aecf4a0 | The story of the very first outbreak of the Revival traces it to the trembling utterance of a poor Welsh girl, who, at a meeting in a Cardigan village, was the first to rise and testify. "If no one else will, then I must say that I love the Lord Jesus Christ with all my heart." | Evan Roberts | ||
| ba3ef22 | There are no advertisements, no brass bands, no posters, no huge tents. | Evan Roberts | ||
| d59372b | There was absolutely nothing wild, violent, hysterical, unless it be hysterical for the laboring breast to heave with sobbing that cannot be repressed, and the throat to choke with emotion as a sense of the awful horror and shame of a wasted life suddenly bursts upon the soul. | Evan Roberts | ||
| 303def5 | History, as taught by schools, has white washed the drunkenness out of the past. It has minimized the influence of drugs on history's great thinkers, and covered up the impact of prostitution and insults on human development. | insult history vice drugs | Robert Evans | |
| 4c1f281 | Now, what effect is this work producing upon men? First of all, it is turning Christians everywhere into evangelists. | Evan Roberts | ||
| c27f377 | called Evan Malone at the number Epstein had given me and got his wife, and made an appointment to come up to his place on Bow Lake to talk with him. On the drive up Route 93, I called Epstein on the cell phone. | Robert B. Parker | ||
| f44721a | I have called Evan Roberts the so-called boy preacher, because he is neither a boy nor a preacher. He is a tall, graceful, good-looking young man of twenty-six, with a pleading eye and a most winsome smile. If he is a boy, he is a six-foot boy, and six-footers are usually past their boyhood. As he is not a boy, neither is he a preacher. he talks simply, unaffectedly, earnestly now and then, but he makes no sermons, and preaching is emphatic.. | Evan Roberts | ||
| e348e50 | The revival is borne along upon billowing waves of sacred song. It is the singing, not the preaching, that is the instrument which is most efficacious in striking the hearts of men. | Evan Roberts | ||
| 873c636 | Getting into action generates inspiration. Don't cop out waiting for inspiration to get you back into action. It won't! Before I take a hike, I leave you with this thought: It's not a compliment when someone tells you you're a survivor. It's bullshit. We're all survivors till we die. Get out there, go for it, don't be afraid. Be a winner--that's what it's all about. | Robert Evans | ||
| f096aff | What is the character of this revival? It is a Church revival. I do not mean by that merely a revival among church members. It is that, but it is held in church buildings. Now, you may look astonished, but I have been saying for a long time that the revival which is to be permanent in the life of a nation must be associated with the life of the churches. | Evan Roberts | ||
| 54e95f4 | soul has been concerned with the spiritual condition of the believers present, in their relation to God. Get the Church right with God, and then He will work through the Church on the unsaved. "Bend the Church, and save the world," is the watchword of this revival." | Evan Roberts | ||
| ea5cf52 | There is in this revival a deep current of reality; when anything unreal creeps in, the power stops. | Evan Roberts | ||
| ae54d84 | A cynical, indifferent critic watching any one of these meetings would be forced to admit that the young man is sincere to the core; that he descends to no trick of gesture or word or act; that he is straightforward and simple to the last degree; that he does not try to force people against their will, and yet that in some way he draws all before him, not to himself, but to the Spirit of Whom he is the avowed disciple. | Evan Roberts | ||
| 01771e9 | Let the wealth of remembrances past be the link of friendship treasured. | Robert Evans |