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

Bill Gates is a very rich man today… and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions. – Dave Barry

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Technology
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Although Golf was originally restricted to wealthy Protestants, today its open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. – Dave Barry

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Sports :: Golf
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It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money. – Dave Barry

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Art
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Other Quotes from
Violence
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In some cases nonviolence requires more militancy than violence. – Cesar Chavez

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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

We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization. – Anthony Burgess

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Violence

Cause a man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun – Don Henley

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Violence

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This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there. – Quentin Crisp

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Fanaticism

Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others: many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance. One may easily distinguish the two: the former are always full; the latter only now and then, when their suns are shining full upon them. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Mind

Theres lots of problem solving in any marriage, but when you have this collective goal that is a human being, its an inspiring rally point. – Ty Burrell

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Marriage

I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate. – Gordon Ramsay

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Success