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

The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs. – Dave Barry

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cool
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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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It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another persons plate. – Dave Barry

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funny
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Other Quotes from
Violence
category

A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it. – Lewis H. Lapham

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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

Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe. – John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1667

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Violence

Random Quotes

Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy. – Beyonce Knowles

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strength

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken. – Simone de Beauvoir

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Sex

Look to the future, because that is where youll spend the rest of your life. – George Burns

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Future

And I believe that if we can care about whether or not our neighbor has a good job or access to affordable health care for their children, and we move to implement the policies that can improve these situations, we will unleash vast amounts of human potential and recapture the American spirit. – Tim Ryan

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Health