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Keynesians are to economics what witch doctors are to medicine.
~ Peter Schiff
Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
~ Ronald Reagan
My liberal friends are such a bunch soft-headed, politically correct jerks.
~ Jack Germond
The politics of transgender identity are really complicated. And the debate over how much of gender is biological and how much of it is socially constructed is a very complex debate.
~ Jess Row
May your earlobes turn to assholes and shit on your shoulders.
~ William Finnegan
Note how small stocks have had higher returns than larger stocks, but that they also have higher risks. In both the Great Depression and the 1970s bear market, small-stocks sustained higher losses than large stocks. In addition, the small stock advantage is extremely tenuous—it's less than a percent-and-a-half per year, and there have been periods of more than 30 years when large stocks have bested small stocks. For these reasons, the small-stock advantage is controversial.
~ William J. Bernstein
All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance—unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion—have the full protection of the guaranties…. But implicit in the history of the First Amendment is the rejection of obscenity as utterly without redeeming social importance.
~ William J. Brennan (Jr.)
Bob Dylan was different. Where most folk singers were either clean-cut or homey looking, Dylan had wild long hair. He resembled a poor white dropout of questionable morals. His songs were hard-driving, powerful, intense. It was hard to be neutral about them. "The Times They Are a-Changing" was perhaps the first song to exploit the generation gap. Dylan's life was as controversial as his ideology.
~ William L. O'Neill
Your mother's cunt has a peculiar tubular shape!' he yelled. 'Nonetheless, I tolerate its effluvium and enthusiastically lick its inner folds whenever she demands!
~ David Benioff
The subject of British abolitionism has long been controversial, complex, and even baffling. It also raises the issue of moral progress in history - whether groups of reformers and even nations can succeed in eliminating deeply entrenched forms of human oppression, and if so, by what methods, misconceptions, and under what conditions?
~ David Brion Davis
oh, it's a penis. They're all masturbating. At high speed, it seems.
~ David Byrne
The camera also took a moment or two to linger on Chase's athletic breasts, her erect nipples, and her pubic hair, which was dirty blond and luxuriant and not at all in the modern prepubescent shaven-porn idiom which Naomi loathed;
~ David Cronenberg
On to some juicy French philosophical sex-killing murder-suicide cannibal thing. You?" "Still the controversial Hungarian breast-cancer radioactive seed implant treatment thing. I adore you." " Je t'adore aussi . Call me. Bye." "Bye.
~ David Cronenberg
I think Polanski's an amazing director.
~ David Duchovny
all real progress in social science has been rooted in the courage to say things that are, in the final analysis, slightly ridiculous:
~ David Graeber
somehow Acheson had been scarred during the McCarthy era; it was not so much that he had done anything wrong as the fact that he had been forced to defend himself. By that very defense, by all the publicity, he had become controversial. He had been in print too often, it was somehow indiscreet of Dean to be attacked by McCarthy.
~ David Halberstam
Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
~ David Herbert Lawrence
Avoca?ii sunt asasinii pl?ti?i ai zilelor noastre.
~ David Lagercrantz
David M. Jacobs
~ confabulation
Most Jews do not like to admit it, but our god is Lucifer... and we are his chosen people.
~ Harold Wallace Rosenthal
It is Satan who is the God of our planet and the only God.
~ Unknown
The use of God in moral debate is so problematic as to be almost worthless.
~ Richard Holloway
No, no, no, not God bless America — God damn America!
~ Jeremiah Wright