"Fretting about overpopulation, is a perfect guilt-free - indeed, sanctimonious - way for "progressives" to be racists."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

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“I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.”
“Educators are aware that they can reach the youth only by making use of gang spirit and guiding it, not by working against it.”

Source : Johan Huizinga (1972). “America; a Dutch historian's vision, from afar and near”
“I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there.”
“Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.”
“If you give it to God, He transforms your test into a testimony, your mess into a message, and your misery into a ministry.”
“Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism -- which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place.”
“Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.”

Source : "New kid on the block" by Matt Seaton, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2002.
“The present moment is really all that we have. The only place you can really love another person is in the present. Love in the past is a memory. Love in the future is a fantasy. To be really alive, love - or any other experience - must take place in the present.”

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