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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

P. J. O'Rourke

I rarely meet a politician that I don’t like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
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Dangerm Charm Meet Personal Politician Rare
Never wear anything that panics the cat.
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Anything Cat never Panic Wear
Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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Great Hubris One Renewable Resource
Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
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College Seriousness Stupiditym Sent
People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
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Ant Bee Collective Live Love People Reason
Every vote should carry a serial number, so that responsibility for harmful or careless use of the vote can be traced. Concealed voting should be outlawed.
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Bote Careless Conceal Every Bote Harmful Number Serial Trace Vote
Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.
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Broken Interest Like More Paint Person Place Probably Sensible
Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don’t draft people; it’s not jury duty.
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Draft Duty People Political Politician Select Self System
Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How’d they get so rich? Because they’re free.
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Country Free Nokia Phone Plywood Rich
Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There’s more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it’s awfully close to human.
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Adaptively Computer Little Native Odd Science Seem Social Society Strange
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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Benefit Divorce Good Long Married Stay Sympathy Ter
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.
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Democrat Government Lawn Make Party Republican Smarter
I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.
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Carpenter Make Stop Terrible Thing Wood
Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
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Bad Family Love Messy Pattern Wallpaper
Call a man ‘ignorant,’ and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
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Call Him Ignorant Knowledge Licence Man Show Vast Wise
I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a ‘learning experience.’ Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I’ve done as a ‘learning experience.’ It makes me feel less stupid.
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Again Anything Behaviour Done Experience Learn Sixties Stupid Think

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