Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
P. J. O'ROURKEIf you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat – in other words, turn you into an adult.
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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren’t present.
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If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
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Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino’s box.
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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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I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.
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Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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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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Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
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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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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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Just because a subject is serious doesn’t mean it doesn’t have plenty of absurdities.
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Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn’t matter.
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People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
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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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A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
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