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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.

P. J. O'Rourke

I don’t even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I’ve never used a computer.
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Computer Gaze Know One Suppose Use
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
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Come Creep Duty Enfeeble Evil Human Law Plan Rule
The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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Adept Avoid Even Learn More Young
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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Brain Community Enthusiastic Immediately Join Minute Somebody Suffer
Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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Expert Leader Nothing Political Say
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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Adaptively Computer Little Native Odd Science Seem Social Society Strange
There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.
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Car Chief Device Increase Mechanical Number Particularly
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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Give Government Money Poer Teenage Whiskey
Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
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Catch Contemporary Country English Flourish Phrase
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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Know People Pont Poor Purpose Real Welfare
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
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
You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they’re going.
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Ask Came Children Form Go Grow Know Tell
Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.
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Benefit Bring Hero People Rich Wealth
I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
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Country Favor Invasion Mush
I rarely meet a politician that I don’t like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
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Dangerm Charm Meet Personal Politician Rare

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