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With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish.
- Hard
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Hard distinctions make bad philosophy.
- Attitude
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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.
- Honor
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Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor.
- Hemisphere
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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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Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side.
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Language is froth on the surface of thought.
- Like
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Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.
- Different
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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.
- People
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Once a person has killed other people on behalf of an ideology, he becomes rather devoted to it.
- Live
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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.
- Diverted
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Don't try to talk anyone out of concentrating his hatred on Ayn Rand or any other dead person. It can't harm the dead. Diverted to a living person, it might actually do harm.
- Contempt
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Compassion is contempt with a human face.
- History
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In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.
- Failure
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Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.
- May
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Suicidal terrorists may have short shelf lives.
- Language
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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'.
- Explains
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Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.
- Energy
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My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling.
- Opinion
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My opinion is that he's a swindler and you're a sucker.
- More
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There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them.
- Enough
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Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard at them for money.
- Getting
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Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf.
- Humanity
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An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice.
- Intelligence
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Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.
- Face
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Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists.
- Feudalism
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We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.
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Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions.
- Man
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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.
- People
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