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"When they discover I have a green card there may be some problems."

"You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come."

"I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone."

"Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do."

"It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened library paste that passes for gravy."
May,

"I may be the girl next door, but you wouldn't want to live next to me."

"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."

"You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done."

"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."
May,
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."

"The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff."

"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."

"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators."

"The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows."
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