"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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"In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.“
-John McCarthy
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"Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information."
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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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"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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"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."
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