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#1

“Was it a millionaire who said "imagine no possessions?"
A poor little schoolboy who said "we don't need no lessons?”
― Elvis Costello

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#2

“Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: journalism

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#3

“....maybe fear is God's way of saying, "Pay attention, this could be fun.”
― Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

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#4

“The hippy movement was a failure.”
― Joe Strummer

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#5

“The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced.”
― Frank Zappa

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#6

“The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

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#7

“Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.”
― Larken Rose

tags: abuse, anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, coercion, democracy, elections, freedom, government, libertarian, liberty, religion, slavery, sophism, statism, stockholm-syndrome, superstition, taxation, violence, voluntaryism, voting

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#8

“It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.”
― Murray N. Rothbard

tags: anarchy, austrian-economics, austrian-school-of-economics, charity, coercion, communism, free-markets, freedom, libertarian, liberty, philosophy, socialism, statism, virtue, voluntaryism, welfare

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#9

“Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.)”
― Ovid

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#10

“Women are attracted to funny men, it is often said. This is not true. It only appears this way because women laugh at everything a very handsome man says. So this gives the very handsome men the idea that they are funny.”
― Norm Macdonald, Based on a True Story

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#11

“The only thing an old man can tell a young man is that it goes fast, real fast, and if you’re not careful it’s too late. Of course, the young man will never understand this truth.”
― Norm Macdonald, Based on a True Story

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#12

“Long after I left the segment, the term “fake news” became the ordinary way to describe what was done on SNL as well as The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. So who’s the idiot now?”
― Norm Macdonald, Based on a True Story

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#13

“Death is a funny thing. Not funny haha, like a Woody Allen movie, but funny strange, like a Woody Allen marriage.”
― Norm Macdonald, Based on a True Story

tags: humor

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#14

“Sometimes a writer's strike is good. Maybe if we had a writer's strike now, people would have to read Shakespeare instead of James Patterson.”
― Norm Macdonald

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#15

“Death is a funny thing. Not funny haha, like a Woody Allen movie, but funny strange, like a Woody Allen marriage.”
― Norm Macdonald, Based on a True Story

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#16

“I was born the son of a humble mechanic. A quantum mechanic.”
― Mark Oliver Everett, Things The Grandchildren Should Know

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