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John McCarthy

"Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking."

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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."

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"It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before."

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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

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"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."

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"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

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"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."

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"You can stroke people with words."

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"One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide."

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"Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted."

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"Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions."
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"Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side."
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