Hard distinctions make bad philosophy.
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This sort of large-scale removal is the kind of thing that gets the public concern up, and then results in the concerns of policy makers.John McCarthy
The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'.
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A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest.
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A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot.
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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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Clinton can say in my industry 56 of the experienced men are unemployed.
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