The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.
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Liberals have invented whole college majors – psychology, sociology and women’s studies – to prove that nothing is anybody’s fault.
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Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
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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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I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.
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No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it’s probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.
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Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
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I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a ‘learning experience.’ Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I’ve done as a ‘learning experience.’ It makes me feel less stupid.
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Just because a subject is serious doesn’t mean it doesn’t have plenty of absurdities.
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Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
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We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren’t there.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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