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We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren’t there.

P. J. O'Rourke

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
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Bureaucracy Dispose Dump Government Propose
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
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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Better Boomer Generation Hope Millennial Run
People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
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Always Anything People Tell Truth
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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Adaptively Computer Little Native Odd Science Seem Social Society Strange
All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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Bad Change Done Sometimes
There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as ‘caring’ and ‘sensitive’ because he wants to expand the government’s charitable programs is merely saying that he’s willing to try to do good with other people’s money.
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Advocate Charity Compulsory Government Merely Politician Virtue
Regulation creates a moral hazard.
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Create Hazard Morale Regulation
Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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Again Born Cow Dairy Hunt Make Scope
Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
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Catch Contemporary Country English Flourish Phrase
The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the ’70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.
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Divorce Prior Rate Reason Relation Seventy Until Veen
There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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Away Men never One Sie Sooner Take Thing Women
If you think health care is expensive now, just wait ’til it’s free.
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Care Expensive Free Health Now Think Wait
Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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Agriculture Business Dinner Fertilizer Grant Indian Overall Politics Thanksgiving
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
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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Absolute Love People Really Say Script Stupid Write

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