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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

P. J. O'Rourke

Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.
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Broken Interest Like More Paint Person Place Probably Sensible
Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn’t exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.
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Advocate Animal Association Head Lice National Own Prediculosis
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
A humorist doesn’t really do that much note-taking.
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Humorist Much Note Really Talk
Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.
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Bay Country Effect Small Tribe
Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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Edit Simply Surrender
The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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Adept Avoid Even Learn More Young
Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren’t present.
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Flatter Gossip Object Present
Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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Irritate Let More Nuisance Other President
Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
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Catch Contemporary Country English Flourish Phrase
In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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Another Brief Death History Impeach National Out President Thousand Worry
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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Brilliant Everything Midwest Most Notice Proposal Satire Straightforward Time
You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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Give Money People Poverty Rid
Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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Children Everybody Except Know People Raise
The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can’t do, shouldn’t do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.
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Better Body Forever Lesson Often Older Presence Sort Teach Thing
All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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Bad Change Done Sometimes

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