You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.
P. J. O'ROURKEThe French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.
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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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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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You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they’re going.
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When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he’s saving a parking place.
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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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Never fight an inanimate object.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.
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Let’s reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools – and use it on the teachers.
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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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A humorist doesn’t really do that much note-taking.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas – fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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I read good. I was an English major.
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