Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
P. J. O'ROURKEYou can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it’s simply a measurement.
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Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization – an appeal to civilization itself.
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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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A humorist doesn’t really do that much note-taking.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of ‘I hate strangers and anything that’s different.’
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Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
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Supposedly, summer vacation happens because that’s when the kids are home from school, although having the kids home from school is no vacation. And supposedly the kids are home from school because of some vestigial throwback to our agricultural past.
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We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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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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The people who despise America are the editors of the ‘New Statesman.’ Their green-card applications must have been turned down.
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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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Never fight an inanimate object.
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If you think health care is expensive now, just wait ’til it’s free.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas – fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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