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The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.

P. J. O'Rourke

Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
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Business Cancer Country Nice Place Show Southern Spread
Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.
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Everybody Extent Xenophobia
Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they’re right.
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East Everybody Explain Middle Right
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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Around Brown Country Dog Everything Except House Kid Look
Adam Smith’s huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
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Fact Failure Forces Huge Industrial People Revolution
Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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Expert Leader Nothing Political Say
Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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Cater Communist Country Hate People Person
Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
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Achieve Attempt Merit Politics Power Prestige
Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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Great Hubris One Renewable Resource
The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?
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Administration Attack Country Gun Hell Nut President Religious
The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.
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Act Enough Government Idea Pay People Whole
The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry – knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag symbolizing something-or-other, and Robin Hood getting in the way. An actual stag hunt is more like a horseback meeting of a county planning commission.
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Billow Chivalry Dress Health Jerkin Knight Lady Sidesaddle Think Wimple
If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
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Government Illegal Product Sell
If you spend 72 hours in a place you’ve never been, talking to people whose language you don’t speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don’t understand, and you come back as the world’s biggest know-it-all, you’re a reporter. Either that or you’re President Obama.
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Economic Hour Language People Place Political Seventy Social Spend Talk Two
The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the ’70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.
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Divorce Prior Rate Reason Relation Seventy Until Veen
I read good. I was an English major.
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English Good Major Read

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