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When I’m in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.

P. J. O'Rourke

Call a man ‘ignorant,’ and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
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Call Him Ignorant Knowledge Licence Man Show Vast Wise
Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.
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Everybody Everything Happy Idea Insane Law Liberal
I’m old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
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Country Dirty Enough Now Old Over Remember
We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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Government Human Nature Need
Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I’m not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
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Draw Exceptional Happiness History Human Island Litle Peace Point Prosperity Sure
Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.
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Everybody Extent Xenophobia
I’ve got a 1990 Porsche 911. It’s just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
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Got Little Love Simple Straightforward Thing
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
People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it’s simply a measurement.
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Bathroom Market None People Philosophy Scale Thing Think Those
Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.
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Biological Child Each Fact Fatherhood Mother Requires Well
If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
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Government Illegal Product Sell
Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
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Affair Force Great Human Stupid
If you think health care is expensive now, just wait ’til it’s free.
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Care Expensive Free Health Now Think Wait
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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Communist Country Economy End Failure Line Long Made People Soviet
Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
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Election Explosion Positive Right Started
The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there’s a reason for that – the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent – No Child Left Behind.
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Behind Civil Downfall Government Importance Local State Treat War

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