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Kmconlon’s Quotes

“I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.”
― Dave Barry

tags: humor, humour

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“I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me”
― Oliver Wendell. Holmes

tags: civilization, taxes

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“A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.”
― Dorothy Sayers , Gaudy Night

tags: originality, quotations, thought

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“Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.”
― Sarah Vowell, Assassination Vacation

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“I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so modestly and so humbly—to possess. It is time to withdraw our 'respect' from such fantastic claims, all of them aimed at the exertion of power over other humans in the real and material world.”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever