Quote by Dave Barry
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unle

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. – Dave Barry

Other quotes by Dave Barry

In college, Yuppies major in business administration. If to meet certain requirements they have to take a liberal arts course, they take Business Poetry. – Dave Barry

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Business
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Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro. – Dave Barry

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teen
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Other Quotes from
Violence
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So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs. – Elbert Hubbard

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Violence

Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game? – J. G. Ballard

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Violence

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. – Ellen Glasgow

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Violence

In violence we forget who we are. – Mary McCarthy

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Violence

Random Quotes

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something. – Chauncey Depew

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Enjoyment

I think one of the basic tasks in life – one of the nice things we can do for each other – is to take things that are horrible and scary and make them acceptable and less frightening and, if possible, funny. It feels great to succeed at that. – Julia Sweeney

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funny

Writing is a form of therapy sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation. – Graham Greene

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Fear

Modesty is the conscience of the body. – Honore de Balzac

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Humility