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Just out of curiosity does this actually mean something or have some of
the few remaining bits of your brain just evaporated?
—Patricia O Tuama
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All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
—Sean O'Casey
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America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to
decadence without touching civilization.
—John O'Hara
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I hate flowers—I paint them because they're cheaper than models and
they don't move.
—Georgia O'Keeffe
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A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest
of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
—P. J. O'Rourke
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of
society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't
test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed
and love of power.
—P. J. O'Rourke
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Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
—P. J. O'Rourke
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Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the
exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
—P. J. O'Rourke
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Never fight an inanimate object.
—P. J. O'Rourke
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The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter,
taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are
the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and
prove it.
—P. J. O'Rourke
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it
stop.
—P. J. O'Rourke
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With Epcot Center the Disney corporation has accomplished something I
didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of
make-believe that's worse than regular life.
—P. J. O'Rourke
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I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the
time I found out that M&Ms really do melt in your hand.
—Peter Oakley
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In love there are things—bodies and words.
—Joyce Carol Oates
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Procreation does not require changing how you smell, or writing bad
poetry, or sacrificing various plants to serve as tokens of affection.
—Odo, "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine"
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Marriage Ceremony: An incredible metaphysical sham of watching God and the
law being dragged into the affairs of your family.
—O. C. Ogilvie
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It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable
with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that
depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets
he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does
because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set
of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the
old ones away.
—Kenichi Ohmae
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I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.
—Sir Laurence Olivier
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Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
—Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
—J. Robert Oppenheimer, speaking of Albert Einstein
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Every morning, I get up and look through the "Forbes" list of the richest
people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
—Robert Orben
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Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it
to keep in touch.
—Robert Orben
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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection
unprotected.
—Robert Orben
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Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.
—Robert Orben
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There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs
there'd be no place to put it all.
—Robert Orben
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The difference between scientists and engineers is that when engineers
screw up, people die.
—Frederick Orthlieb, engineering professor
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Fay: The British police force used to be run by men of
integrity.
Truscott: That is a mistake which has been rectified.
—Joe Orton, "Loot"
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If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of
rubbish into it.
—William Orton
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Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
—George Orwell
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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
—George Orwell
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
—George Orwell
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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite
all the time.
—George Orwell
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The quickest way to end a war is to lose it.
—George Orwell
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present
controls the past.
—George Orwell
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Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw
blood in its defense.
—Mark Overby
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Adde parvum parvo manus acervus erit.
[Add little to little and there will be a big pile.]
—Ovid
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It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us
believe there are.
—Ovid
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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
—Ovid (43 BC - AD 18)
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To be loved, be lovable.
—Ovid
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Oh #$%@, we're never going to find the truth. Let's go grab a beer.
—History teacher George Ovitt, telling his class about the
attitude of ancient philosophers