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There's a reason the Third World came in third.

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Jim Goad
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 12
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I'll hit anyone who's seriously threatening my life... that's what happened, and that's what sent me to prison.
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I'll argue anyone into the dust when it comes to facts.
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People huddle together in doctrinaire herds, and the same jackasses who, without the slightest risk, now scream against racism are the same conformist personality types who would have carried torches in lynch mobs a century ago.
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As I view it, spending over two years in a cage is far worse than having your face pounded and dealing with a black eye for a week or two.
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I believe human sexuality is one of the most ridiculous aspects of being a human, and here I was, facing publications whose prevailing editorial slant sought to portray our basic rutting instincts as something ennobling and empowering, to depict women who were fundamentally whores and predominantly unstable as sex workers and god
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He who trades his identity for money will one day wind up with neither.
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I'm more muscular than I was in my younger days. My biceps and shoulders, especially.
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The idea of karma reeks of primitive religious superstition, so I don't place a lot of stock in it.
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I'm alive, happier than I've ever been, and I'm doing exactly what I want.
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The leftist drive for control is insatiable.
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I think that any time a person comes face-to-face with their own mortality - close enough to Death that they can smell its breath - they have a choice: 1) Fall to pieces 2) Reassemble yourself and keep walking.
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I believe that to some degree there are situational and psychological laws of cause-and-effect, but I don't believe there's some Über-soul who doles out justice.
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Governments throughout the English-speaking sphere are creating and then ratcheting the torque on hate-speech laws with frightening eagerness.
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More than most, I believe I'm highly attuned to how heresies eventually become mainstream belief systems and how the vast majority of people who consider themselves 'edgy' are those who only embraced radical ideas LONG after it became safe for them to do so.
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In my long, long years toiling around the publishing industry, I've found that women simply don't stick to the writing with the same fervor that men do.
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I don't think fatherhood's changed me so much as it's conjured protective instincts I've had all along.
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Plenty of people have bad divorces, but few of them end up with cancer, imprisonment, and public scorn. In the dark, rolling, treacherous wake of that sunken ship, the last thing I sought was a relationship or, heaven forbid, marriage.
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I definitely don't know why men are turned-on by lesbianism.
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Most of those who spend their lives as critics secretly wish they'd be considered important enough for someone to bother criticizing them.
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Though your major media kept smacking me upside the head with the word multicultural, you goddamned Australians are the most racist bunch of people I've ever seen in my life.
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