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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

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
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Country Else Government Idea Prefer Sensible Somebody
Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
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Develop Excercise Humor Just Kid Mak Planter Sense Tease
No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession.
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Archive Career Doubt Politics Profession Ridiculous Right Success
Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
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Carefully Child Children Concert Explain Inform Make Threaten Young
We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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Government Human Nature Need
Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they’re right.
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East Everybody Explain Middle Right
Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
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Bad Family Love Messy Pattern Wallpaper
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
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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Answer History Human Humor Literacy Obligation Probably Provide Under
The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry – knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag symbolizing something-or-other, and Robin Hood getting in the way. An actual stag hunt is more like a horseback meeting of a county planning commission.
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Billow Chivalry Dress Health Jerkin Knight Lady Sidesaddle Think Wimple
Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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Country Good Make Nobody
Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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Cater Communist Country Hate People Person
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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Give Government Money Poer Teenage Whiskey
Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization – an appeal to civilization itself.
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Appeal Effective Itself Organization Powerful Response Right Social Sometimes
Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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Annoyance Conundrum Necessary Politics
Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.
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Creep Economy Enfeeble Evil Image Individual Law Rule

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