Regulation creates a moral hazard.
P. J. O'ROURKELet’s reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools – and use it on the teachers.
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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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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To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You’d better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
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Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.
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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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Never wear anything that panics the cat.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas – fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
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The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can’t do, shouldn’t do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.
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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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A fundamental American question is, ‘What’s the big idea?’
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There isn’t much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.
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You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
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Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they’re right.
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