"The phrase surgical strike might be more..." - Quote by George Carlin
The phrase surgical strike might be more acceptable if it were common practice to perform surgery with high explosives.
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“May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.”
“If someone loves you and they leave and don't come back, it was never meant to be. If someone loves you and they leave and come back, set them on fire.”
“Ah, to be a bird. To fly the skies, sing my song, and best of all occasionally peck someone's eyes out.”
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“Most of the time, communication gets confused with conversation. In fact, the two are distinctly different.”
“How shall we account for our pursuits, if they are original? We get the language with which to describe our various lives out of acommon mint.”
“I'm going to, not I'm gonna. Talk intelligent”
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“A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.”
“You know when you see an advertisement for a casino, and they have a picture of a guy winning money? That's false advertising, because that happens the least. That's like if you're advertising a hamburger, they could show a guy choking. "This is what happened once."”
“Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: -- I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.”