No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession.

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No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession.

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The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.

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The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.
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Idea Whole
The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.

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The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.
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Random Unremarkable
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.

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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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never Unfaithful
Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.

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Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
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Contemporary English Flourish Phrase
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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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 Impeach National Out President Thousand
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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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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Automobile Shift Toward
Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

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Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
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Messy Pattern Wallpaper
Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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Hubris One Renewable
The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.

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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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Factor Put Themselves Two
If you think health care is expensive now, just wait ’til it’s free.

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If you think health care is expensive now, just wait ’til it’s free.
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Expensive Free Now Think
Why do elites hate the poor? It’s xenophobia. They don’t know any poor people – except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don’t speak English.
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Elite English Xenophobia
The minute somebody joins a committee… they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.

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The minute somebody joins a committee… they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.
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Community Enthusiastic Immediately Join Minute Somebody Suffer
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 Fertilizer Grant Indian Overall Thanksgiving
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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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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Card Christmas Funeral Greeting Send
The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.

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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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Adept Even Learn More
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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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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Boomer Millennial

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