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America wasn’t founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.

P. J. O'Rourke

Never wear anything that panics the cat.
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Anything Cat never Panic Wear
Call a man ‘ignorant,’ and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
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Call Him Ignorant Knowledge Licence Man Show Vast Wise
Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don’t draft people; it’s not jury duty.
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Draft Duty People Political Politician Select Self System
The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas – fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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Atomic Bed Big Bomb Century Idea Test
Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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Great Hubris One Renewable Resource
The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.
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Average Beauty Citizen Democracy Lead Random Unremarkable
Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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Country Destabilize Nation Religious
Global warming is a fact. Now it’s up to liberals to make it a reality. Hence there is crucial importance in preventing powerful, greedy free market forces from getting in the way of worsening storms and rising sea levels. The Kyoto Accord is a good first step.
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Fact Global Greedy Importance Make Powerful Prevent Reality Warming
What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it’s so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I’ve received a spam text.
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Bell Flower Occupy Person Pocket Search Small Vase
The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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Adept Avoid Even Learn More Young
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
New Hampshire polling data are unreliable because, when you call the Granite State’s registered Republicans and independents in the middle of dinner and ask them who they’re going to vote for, they have a mouth full of mashed potatoes and you can’t understand what they say.
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Independent New Poll Registered Republican Unreliable
Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
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College Seriousness Stupiditym Sent
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
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Always Die Good Look Make Middle Read Something
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
Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
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Develop Excercise Humor Just Kid Mak Planter Sense Tease

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