Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
P. J. O'ROURKEEverybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they’re right.
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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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You’re never going to read ‘The Wealth of Nations,’ and you shouldn’t, really. It’s 900 pages.
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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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Never fight an inanimate object.
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Every vote should carry a serial number, so that responsibility for harmful or careless use of the vote can be traced. Concealed voting should be outlawed.
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There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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There isn’t much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.
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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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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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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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A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It’s a promissory note that doesn’t actually promise anything. It’s not backed by gold or silver.
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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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The Communist bloc of old was a study in the failure of failure. Losers in the Soviet economy were the people at the end of the long lines for consumer goods. Worse losers were the people who had spent hours getting to the head of the line, only to be told that the goods were unavailable.
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Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they’re right.
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