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Eddie Izzard If you're choking in a restaurant you can just say the magic words, 'Heimlich maneuver,' and all will be well. Trouble is, it's difficult to say 'Heimlich maneuver' when you're choking to death.
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Antonin Artaud Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.
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Benjamin Franklin Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor but the highest form of flattery.
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Sherrilyn Kenyon You know, your sarcasm isn’t appreciated right now. I’ve been drugged, beaten, nearly raped, saved, drugged again, hijacked, and now threatened by you. Tell me, what else should I look forward to? Torture, or just a good maiming? (Kiara)
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Sherrilyn Kenyon You really don’t want to take that tone with me. (Varyk) Well, I do have several others we can choose from. Contemptuous. Angry. Snide. Aggravated. How about I just settle on extreme sarcasm and we call it even? (Dev)
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Sherrilyn Kenyon Don't you have class today? (Kyrian) Boy, I'm a backwoods Cajun, I ain't never got no class, cher. (Nick) (He cleared his throat and dropped the thick Cajun accent.) And no, today's registration. I've got to figure out what I'm taking next semester. (Nick) I have a few things I need you to do today. (Kyrian) And that is different from any other day how? (Nick) Sarcasm, thy name is Nick Gautier. (Kyrian)
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Sherrilyn Kenyon Any game plan? Xypher asked Sin. Don't die. I like it. Simple, bold. Impossible. Works for me. Kat scoffed at his sarcasm. What are you bitching about, Xypher? You're already dead. He laughed. You know, for once, it's good to be me.
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Nicolas Cage I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic, they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor.
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Charlie Chaplin I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
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Catherynne M. Valente You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.
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Diane Ackerman Part of the irony of environmentalism is questing for solutions when you know you're part of the problem.
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Robert Newman The irony is in many places the railroads are laying track where they removed it over the past two decades.
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.
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Jamie Zawinski The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it.
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Frederick Douglass At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Megan Ronhovde We knew 3-point shooting was their game. There's a lot of irony in it in that we go on the same philosophy.
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Masanobu Fukuoka The irony is that science has served only to show how small human knowledge is.
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Geoff Garin The polls are pretty clear that voters want limits on the government's power. This is really an argument not about fighting terrorism but about checks and balances and unbridled government authority.
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Barack Obama Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.
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Sam Harris The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an argument for the truth of any religious doctrine. It's not an argument that it's reasonable to believe that Jesus really was born of a virgin or that the Bible is the perfect word of the creator of the universe.
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Seth Berkley Measles is probably the best argument for why there needs to be global health, and why we have to think about it as a global public good. Because in a sense, measles is the canary in the coal mine for immunization. It is, you know, highly transmissible. The vaccine costs 15 cents, so it's not - you know, shouldn't be an issue in terms of cost.
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Virginia Postrel There's a popular saying that the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. Desire and innovation will trump policy, the argument goes, as clever programmers circumvent controls.
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Mary Deutsch We have less than 20 days to create a solid argument that this project requires a full environmental-impact report. We need to move really quickly.
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Ed Balls It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.
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Meir Soloveichik The moment that one person in an argument claims to be God, dialogue and debate become impossible.
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Mark McCafferty We are not concerned with taking control of the board or taking more money at the expense of others. Our argument is that not enough is being done to enhance the commercial value of the Heineken Cup: more partners should be sought and there should be a sponsor for the Challenge Cup, a competition which is important but which does drain resources. We are not after a bigger slice of the pie: we want a bigger pie so that everyone gets more.