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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.

P. J. O'Rourke

Never fight an inanimate object.
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Fight Inanimate never Object
Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I’ve been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.
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Anticatalist Children Convince Example Occupy Thank Wall
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
What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it’s so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I’ve received a spam text.
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Bell Flower Occupy Person Pocket Search Small Vase
Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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Artistic Country Impact Life Tremendous Woodstock
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
Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they’re right.
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East Everybody Explain Middle Right
I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived.
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Automobile Business Country Remember Shift Toward
I’ve got a 1990 Porsche 911. It’s just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
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Got Little Love Simple Straightforward Thing
By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire.
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Car Country End Ernt Reliable Say Thousand
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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Actually Dollar Federal Promise Research Silver
Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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Expert Leader Nothing Political Say
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
Term limits aren’t enough. We need jail.
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Enough Jail Limit Need Term
People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
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Ant Bee Collective Live Love People Reason
Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
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College Seriousness Stupiditym Sent

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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