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.
P. J. O'ROURKERichard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You’d better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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I’m old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
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The world is being run by irresponsible spoiled brats.
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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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Don’t send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
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Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
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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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Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
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Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they’re right.
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Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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