Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God’s grace.
P. J. O'ROURKEStaying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
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Once you’ve built the big machinery of political power, remember you won’t always be the one to run it.
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Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I’m not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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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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When I’m in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don’t draft people; it’s not jury duty.
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Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization – an appeal to civilization itself.
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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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I’m old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.
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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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You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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A fundamental American question is, ‘What’s the big idea?’
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The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that’s the point.
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