Patrick Jake O’Rourke — the American satirist who wrote Parliament of Whores and Give War a Chance among other books – passed away om this day — February 15, 2022 — in Sharon, New Hampshire.
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P. J. O’Rourke passed away
Campus Life at
Carnegie Mellon University
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Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.
~ Milan Kundera
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I do not dislike publicity nor do I want it; it is publicity that wants me.
~ Salvador Dali
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Expending energy trying to motivate people is largely a waste of time.
~ Jim Collins, Good to Great
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University of Southern California
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University of New South Wales
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I shall not find a painting more beautiful because the artist has painted a hawthorn in the foreground, though I know of nothing more beautiful than the hawthorn, for I wish to remain sincere and because I know that the beauty of a painting does not depend on the things represented in it.
~ Marcel Proust
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