Just because a subject is serious doesn’t mean it doesn’t have plenty of absurdities.
P. J. O'ROURKEGlobalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
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I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.
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Staying 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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Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
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If 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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Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
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If you think health care is expensive now, just wait ’til it’s free.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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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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There isn’t much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.
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Regulation creates a moral hazard.
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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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The budget doesn’t have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn’t have much control over the budget.
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Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
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The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.
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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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