"The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'."
-John McCarthy
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"Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.“
-John McCarthy
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"There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected that's when he doesn't forget them."
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"The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world's most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement."
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"An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth."
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"Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information."
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"In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated."
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