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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Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting. – Dave Barry

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Fishing
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Mother Nature, in her infinite wisdom, has instilled within each of us a powerful biological instinct to reproduce; this is her way of assuring that the human race, come what may, will never have any disposable income. – Dave Barry

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Parents
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Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down. – Dave Barry

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car
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Violence
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He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Violence

Violence was almost an aphrodisiac for me. – Woody Harrelson

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Violence

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

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Violence

I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future. – Edward Bond

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Violence

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If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want. – Zig Ziglar

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In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects. – J. William Fulbright

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Democracy

The failures and successes are necessary for learning. – Wynonna Judd

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Learning

We have to challenge the whole idea that its acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and dont have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives. – Iain Duncan Smith

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