American - Politician | July 19, 1857 - March 30, 1943
Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor.
John McCarthy
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He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish.
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A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest.
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Hard distinctions make bad philosophy.
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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.
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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.
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Language is froth on the surface of thought.
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Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.
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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.
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Once a person has killed other people on behalf of an ideology, he becomes rather devoted to it.
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It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into.
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