A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
P. J. O'ROURKEI’m too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom’s earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works.
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Regulation creates a moral hazard.
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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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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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There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it.
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Adam Smith’s huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
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Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
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The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.
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If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat – in other words, turn you into an adult.
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Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.
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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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Never wear anything that panics the cat.
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A humorist doesn’t really do that much note-taking.
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Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.
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