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

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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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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The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. – Dave Barry

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Internet
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Other Quotes from
Violence
category

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

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Violence

In some cases nonviolence requires more militancy than violence. – Cesar Chavez

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Violence

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. – Gandhi

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Violence

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Violence

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In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations. – Claude Bernard

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Science

Tommy Lee Jones is hilarious. I would say, if you look at the body of his work, the character he is most like is the one in The Fugitive. Thats how he talks and jokes. That is the type of energy he has. – Will Smith

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work

Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality. – Emily Dickinson

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Sympathy

Well, what was called the blessed hope of the Bible is that one day Jesus Christ would come back again, start a whole new era, that this world order that we know it would change into something that would be wonderful that wed call the millennium. – Pat Robertson

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Change