In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of ‘I hate strangers and anything that’s different.’
P. J. O'ROURKENever be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.
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Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
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Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
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Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
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The budget doesn’t have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn’t have much control over the budget.
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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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You’re stupid,’ is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.
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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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There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren’t present.
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Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
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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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I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I’m not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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