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“[Giving welfare to poor people] is the equivalent of the government sending [fat people] a jumbo bag of Bugles in the mail twice a month.”

Quote by Adam Carolla

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Adam Carolla, born on May 27, 1964, is an American comedian, podcast host, author, and television personality. Known for his unique sense of humor and candid speech, he has hosted shows such as 'The Man Show' and 'The Adam Carolla Show'. Carolla's career began in comedy clubs, which later expanded to television and radio. more

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“The nations, and the sects, of the Roman world, admitted with equal credulity, and similar abhorrence, the reality of that infernal art [witchcraft], which was able to control the eternal order of the planets, and the voluntary operations of the human mind. . . . They believed, with the wildest inconsistency, that this preternatural dominion of the air, of earth, and of hell, was exercised, from the vilest motives of malice or gain, by some wrinkled hags and itinerant sorcerers, who passed their obscure lives in penury and contempt.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another.”

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Book:The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945

Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945

“[Personal] industry must be faint and languid, which is not excited by the sense of personal interest.”

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Book:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“In matters editorial, I am a believer in totalitarian despotism. Most writers are lazy, difficult, selfish, thoughtless, and unreliable.”

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Book:We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism

Source: We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism

“If you write for the critics, only the critics will read you.”

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Author:Jonah Goldberg

“Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.”

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Author:Eric Hoffer

“Youth doesn't take advice.”

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“How can one say, 'No, this isn't a part of life,' since it always is? The contaminant of sex, the redeeming corruption that de-idealizes the species and keeps us everlastingly mindful of the matter we are.”

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Book:The Human Stain: A Novel

Source: The Human Stain: A Novel

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Author:A. S. Byatt

“Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the single, simple human life that we all more or less lead, with its crude elementals of nurture and appetite, love and competition, the sunshine of well-being and the inevitable night of death. We each live this tale. Fiction has no reason to be embarrassed about telling the same story again and again, since we all, with infinite variations, experience the same story.”