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You’re never going to read ‘The Wealth of Nations,’ and you shouldn’t, really. It’s 900 pages.

P. J. O'Rourke

Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.
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Biological Child Each Fact Fatherhood Mother Requires Well
Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
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Bad Family Love Messy Pattern Wallpaper
All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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Bad Change Done Sometimes
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
You’re stupid,’ is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.
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Critics Most President Serve Something Stupid Usually
Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
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Affair Force Great Human Stupid
The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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Country Factor Put Room Themselves Two
When I’m in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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Car Only Shout
When you’re a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, ‘Gee, I wouldn’t want to be doing that.’ They’re on your side.
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Correspondent Do Person Reader Say That Want
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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Ask Came Children Form Go Grow Know Tell
America wasn’t founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.
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Anything Better Country Damned Found Please
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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Advocate Charity Compulsory Government Merely Politician Virtue
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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Benefit Divorce Good Long Married Stay Sympathy Ter
There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
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Horizon Many Toledo Tree
Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let’s hope so.
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Better Boomer Generation Hope Millennial Run
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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Again Budget Control Government Much Over

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