Liberals have invented whole college majors – psychology, sociology and women’s studies – to prove that nothing is anybody’s fault.
P. J. O'ROURKEThe Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren’t present.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
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I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan.
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Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
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Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.
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I don’t even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I’ve never used a computer.
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Never fight an inanimate object.
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The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.
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The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren’t carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth.
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Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.
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Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
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A humorist doesn’t really do that much note-taking.
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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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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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