If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat – in other words, turn you into an adult.
P. J. O'ROURKESeriousness is stupidity sent to college.
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I read good. I was an English major.
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A fundamental American question is, ‘What’s the big idea?’
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The budget doesn’t have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn’t have much control over the budget.
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I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
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Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
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Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing hypocritical in his attempts to redistribute some of that wealth to himself.
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Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino’s box.
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Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let’s hope so.
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Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
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Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
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The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that’s the point.
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Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas – fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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