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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

P. J. O'Rourke

Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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Again Born Cow Dairy Hunt Make Scope
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
The world is being run by irresponsible spoiled brats.
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Being Brat Irresponsible Spoil World
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes – the whole bag of tricks.
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Black Church Classical English People Preach Scheme Speak Troop
Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don’t draft people; it’s not jury duty.
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Draft Duty People Political Politician Select Self System
Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
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Business Cancer Country Nice Place Show Southern Spread
A fundamental American question is, ‘What’s the big idea?’
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Big Country Fundamental Ideas Question
Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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Hope Ideology Imptent Journalism Joy Luxuniate Politics
America wasn’t founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.
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Anything Better Country Damned Found Please
Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How’d they get so rich? Because they’re free.
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Country Free Nokia Phone Plywood Rich
If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
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Country Death Heard Shock Somebody Starved
If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it’s a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also – to do the lawn and clean the gutters.
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Ask Children Clean Cook Down Government Hold Problem Solve
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
The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the ’70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.
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Divorce Prior Rate Reason Relation Seventy Until Veen
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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Always Build Machinery Once One Political Remember Rum
The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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Country Factor Put Room Themselves Two

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