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P. J. O'Rourke

"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."

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"And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything."

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"Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person."

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"People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans."
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"People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'"
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"I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom."
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