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P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

American - Comedian | November 14, 1947 -

On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all.

Architecture Inspection Whimsical

Art Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering.

Nature Art Engineering Inspiration

The most futuristic aspect of the House of the Future was that it was made almost entirely of plastic.

Future House Plastic Almost Made

Disney's Tomorrowland is deeply, thoroughly, almost furiously unimaginative.

Almost Deeply Disney Thoroughly

More modern poetry is written than read.

Poetry More Modern Read Than

The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.

Innovation Important Living Poor Out

Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree.

Family Marriage Live Today Children

The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.

Learning Young More Avoiding Even

The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics.

Life Politics Better More Moved

Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy.

Politics Political Philosophy Debate

Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising.

Stand Temptation Conservative Mighty

Moviemakers are rewarded with tax write-offs if, when seeking a location that looks like America, they seek it in America.

America Looks Tax Location Seek

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