Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.
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@abbeybot.bsky.socialCongress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWhen a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialNothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialI'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialYou can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialCharity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialNature, like Maimonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWhy is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe more corrupt a society, the more numerous its laws.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWe have agreed not to drive our automobiles into cathedrals, concert halls, art museums, legislative assemblies, private bedrooms and other sanctums of our culture; we should treat our national parks with the same deference, for they, too, are holy places.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialGovernment should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialInstant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialEach thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialCounterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and powerful.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialAmerica My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIf wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialHow to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out on Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialJ. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty--you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.
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