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When you’re a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, ‘Gee, I wouldn’t want to be doing that.’ They’re on your side.

P. J. O'Rourke

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
Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it.
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Dosproven Fact Mindless Opinion People Some
Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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Balck Believe Country Despite People Vehemently
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
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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Bay Country Effect Small Tribe
You’re never going to read ‘The Wealth of Nations,’ and you shouldn’t, really. It’s 900 pages.
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Going Hundred Nation Nine Page Read Reality Wealth
What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it’s so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I’ve received a spam text.
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Bell Flower Occupy Person Pocket Search Small Vase
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
Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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Belt Cigarette Government Hazard Helth Kill Many More People Set
The people who despise America are the editors of the ‘New Statesman.’ Their green-card applications must have been turned down.
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Association Card Country Desire Down Editor Green People Turn
By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire.
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Car Country End Ernt Reliable Say Thousand
Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
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College Seriousness Stupiditym Sent
Liberals have invented whole college majors – psychology, sociology and women’s studies – to prove that nothing is anybody’s fault.
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Fault Invent Liberal Major Psychology Sociology Study Women
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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Except Love never Unfaithful Wife
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
Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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Expert Leader Nothing Political Say

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