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I’m old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.

P. J. O'Rourke

Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
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Accept Blink Eye Gay Happen Marriage
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
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
The budget doesn’t have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn’t have much control over the budget.
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Again Budget Control Government Much Over
Supposedly, summer vacation happens because that’s when the kids are home from school, although having the kids home from school is no vacation. And supposedly the kids are home from school because of some vestigial throwback to our agricultural past.
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Done Endless Foreigner God Like Lousy Party Politics School Some Thing Wrong
The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.
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Act Enough Government Idea Pay People Whole
There is only one thing that gives me hope as a Republican, and that is the Democrats. It’s going to be hard to do a worse job running American than the Republicans have, but if anybody can do it, it’s the Democrats.
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Democrat Great Hope Job One Republican Run Thing
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
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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Buy Control First Legislator Sell Sold
The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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Restaurant Review Start Student
The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?
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Administration Attack Country Gun Hell Nut President Religious
They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, ‘But doesn’t it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn’t it be set in New Guinea?’ And you say, ‘But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.’
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Absolute Love People Really Say Script Stupid Write
The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It’s a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect.
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Amount Ample But Country Dry Land Much Problem Run Water
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
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
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

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