I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.
P. J. O'ROURKEGovernment is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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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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Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.
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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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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he’s saving a parking place.
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Liberals have invented whole college majors – psychology, sociology and women’s studies – to prove that nothing is anybody’s fault.
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Rich people don’t like to be in the military. The shoes are ugly and the uniforms itch. Rich people don’t go in much for revolution or terrorism, either.
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Term limits aren’t enough. We need jail.
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No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it’s probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a ‘learning experience.’ Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I’ve done as a ‘learning experience.’ It makes me feel less stupid.
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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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The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.
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