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Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.

P. J. O'Rourke

The most brilliant satire of all time was ‘A Modest Proposal’ by Jonathan Swift. You’ll notice how everything got straightened out in Ireland within days of that coming out.
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The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.
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They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, ‘But doesn’t it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn’t it be set in New Guinea?’ And you say, ‘But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.’
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When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he’s saving a parking place.
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Call a man ‘ignorant,’ and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
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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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If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
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People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
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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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Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
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Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing hypocritical in his attempts to redistribute some of that wealth to himself.
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No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession.
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If you think health care is expensive now, just wait ’til it’s free.
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