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The weirder you’re going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.

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The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.
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Better Average Citizen Country French Monkey Smallish
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
Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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Edit Simply Surrender
The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It’s a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect.
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Amount Ample But Country Dry Land Much Problem Run Water
When I’m in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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Car Only Shout
When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he’s saving a parking place.
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Elite Gutter Homeless Park Person Place Say
Let’s reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools – and use it on the teachers.
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Corporal Introduce Let Punishment School Tracker Use
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
You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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Give Money People Poverty Rid
The minute somebody joins a committee… they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.
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Brain Community Enthusiastic Immediately Join Minute Somebody Suffer
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.
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Democrat Government Lawn Make Party Republican Smarter
I don’t even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I’ve never used a computer.
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Computer Gaze Know One Suppose Use
There is only one thing that gives me hope as a Republican, and that is the Democrats. It’s going to be hard to do a worse job running American than the Republicans have, but if anybody can do it, it’s the Democrats.
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Democrat Great Hope Job One Republican Run Thing
The world is being run by irresponsible spoiled brats.
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Being Brat Irresponsible Spoil World
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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Adaptively Computer Little Native Odd Science Seem Social Society Strange
Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
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Affair Force Great Human Stupid

The weirder you’re going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.

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The weirder you’re going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.

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