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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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To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent. – Dave Barry

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teen
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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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The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number. – Dave Barry

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Age
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Violence
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In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life. – Joseph De Maistre

Category:
Violence

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. – Abraham Lincoln

Category:
Violence

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Violence

Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet. – Daniel Webster

Category:
Violence

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Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves. – Werner Heisenberg

Category:
Nature

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow. – Rupert Murdoch

Category:
Change

Actually, I dont ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at it and say, What? Are there no women in the party to be part of the leadership? Do men want to do it all themselves? It just wont happen again. – Harriet Harman

Category:
Leadership

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. – John Ruskin

Category:
work