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One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.


P. J. O'Rourke


#certain #certainly #east #enduring #history

Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.


P. J. O'Rourke


#cancer #could #cut #just #keeps

If my favorite, most comfortable place is by our fireplace in cold weather, expedient places are on an airplane, in a waiting room or even waiting in line; frequently these days, while on the phone having been 'put on hold.'


Joyce Carol Oates


#been #cold #cold weather #comfortable #days

You don't have to dislike people you disagree with and it doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to have bipartisan friendships in this place. Life's too short to have it any other way.


Dave Obey


#any #bipartisan #disagree #dislike #friendships

Also, General Zinni, who commanded central command, was very much opposed to the war in the first place, as I was. We were both quoted to that effect in February of 2003.


William Odom


#both #central #command #commanded #effect

That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're out; you don't have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over, you're out of the business.


Donald O'Connor


#any #awful thing #become #business #chance

The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.


Flannery O'Connor


#eternity #find #his #location #meet

My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own.


Sandra Day O'Connor


#around #comparison #court #nations #occupies

The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.


Sandra Day O'Connor


#alternative #been #begins #considered #country

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions.


Sandra Day O'Connor


#criticism #criticize #democracy #destructive #freedom






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