"If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments."
-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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"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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"An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth."
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"It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into."
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"The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'."
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