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"When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me."
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"We must design how we wish to be perceived, and then we must work even harder to continuously recreate and re-evaluate that perception."
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"You have your whole life to become what you wish to become. As long as we know where we are going, we can prepare ourselves for the journey. That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever."
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Personal Development
"Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners."
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Personal Development
"Cut the connection between your clothes and your beliefs, because clothes will not make you something, it won't make you honest or dishonest, good or bad! Your essence will not change because of what you wear!"
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Personal Development
"We must carefully cultivate the voice that speaks to us because an internal voice is the ultimate narrator of our charming and delightful personal story or the documentarian of our tragic and disgraceful plotlines. Stories that we tell ourselves become our functional reality, which format structures the concourse of the nested emotional control panel that guides and girds us through the din of the present."
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Personal Development
"Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention."
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Personal Development
"When we run away from something. We're usually running away from ourselves."
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Personal Development
"The real battle is within yourself."
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Personal Development
"Search yourself with other persons and you will find the right you."
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Personal Development
"Honestly, the point is I no more expect you to acknowledge or respect my feelings, there ends your story! HAPPY ME!"
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Explore more quotes by P. J. O'Rourke
"Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human."
Technology
"The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person."
Observation
"Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy."
Politics
"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."
Society
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences."
Philosophy
"I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived."
Memory
"The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it."
Politics
"The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics."
Politics
"Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have."
Politics
"Space has always been confusing to politics."
Science
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