All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
P. J. O'ROURKEI 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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The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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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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Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
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Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God’s grace.
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Term limits aren’t enough. We need jail.
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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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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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The weirder you’re going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.
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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as ‘caring’ and ‘sensitive’ because he wants to expand the government’s charitable programs is merely saying that he’s willing to try to do good with other people’s money.
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Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
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We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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