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

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While you are destroying your mind watching the worthless, brain-rotting drivel on TV, we on the Internet are exchanging, freely and openly, the most uninhibited, intimate and, yes, shocking details about our config.sys settings. – Dave Barry

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Internet
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Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. – Dave Barry

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The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida. – Dave Barry

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Grandparents
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Violence
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? – Alan Paton

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Violence

In violence we forget who we are. – Mary McCarthy

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Violence

Play allows us to develop alternatives to violence and despair…. – Stuart Brown

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Violence

The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder. – Henry C. Wright, The Liberator, 7 April 1837

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Violence

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People see my photos and think I labor over my image and Im this cool, brooding artist. But Im just having fun with it. – Lenny Kravitz

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