I am not arguing with you, I am explaining why I am right.

This is pretty old but still appropriate:
I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

M'emma, I have tried to look her up, without success.
will try again. -- j

[edit] looks like she's in taos, NM.

don't know what you mean;;; this is the truth. -- j

p.s. I was far enough along in school that
I didn't have saturday classes anymore.

"What makes you think I care about your opinion?"

"You've clearly been educated beyond your intelligence"

"You might have the right to free speech, but there is absolutely no requirement that I listen to you."

"If what you were offering had any value to me, I would gladly pay for it. It doesn't, so I won't"

"I do not accept the unearned, neither in values nor in guilt"

+1!

You're just talking till you figure what to say, -- a mind is a terrible thing to waste.

excellent! I'm going to remember that!

are you havin us on john:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nIdGutg...

yes, herb

My favorite was when Philip started talking about balf.

"Who are you?" then walk away.

“He's the looter who thinks that his end justifies his seizure of my means.”

That very sentence did more to change my life than anything I heard before.
That is one zinger, I'll never top.

Whatever happened to her, John?

she was just an innocent young department-store
manager's daughter when I met her. . I guess that
the calm lifestyle I led frustrated her. -- j

Now, can you put all those programmed talking points into your very own words?

"ex-girlfriend, who had left me to run across the
country to "star" in porn magazines, came back to
see me when I was still in engineering school. "
Engineers are a magnet for troubled young women craving stability.

said to a pork castrator named Joni? -- j

an ex-girlfriend, who had left me to run across the
country to "star" in porn magazines, came back to
see me when I was still in engineering school.

it was a Saturday and I was studying in my 1-room
"apartment" at school. . she stood in the doorway
and asked how I was doing. . I kept a serious face
and answered her. . she asked how much longer
I had to go in school. . I answered.

she asked, "What, don't you smile any more?"

I replied, "Not in public."

she left. -- j

I must have missed the memo!
When did something become right or wrong because you got enough votes?

Don't make any false moves

John Galt: "I never do"

I realize that your alcoholic tendency to view life as a win/lose situation is difficult for you and because of that you are being completely irrational BUT...

I stopped calling myself doctor when they started giving PHD's for basket weaving.

This one is so true, so often!