People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
P. J. O'ROURKEThe C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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The Communist bloc of old was a study in the failure of failure. Losers in the Soviet economy were the people at the end of the long lines for consumer goods. Worse losers were the people who had spent hours getting to the head of the line, only to be told that the goods were unavailable.
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Let’s reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools – and use it on the teachers.
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A humorist doesn’t really do that much note-taking.
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Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.
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The people who despise America are the editors of the ‘New Statesman.’ Their green-card applications must have been turned down.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I’m not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization – an appeal to civilization itself.
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The baby boomers’ politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle of that spectrum, but still, there’s been both leftie silliness and right-wing silliness.
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Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn’t exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.
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Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
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I read good. I was an English major.
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A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It’s a promissory note that doesn’t actually promise anything. It’s not backed by gold or silver.
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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Just because a subject is serious doesn’t mean it doesn’t have plenty of absurdities.
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Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
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