Adam Smith’s huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
P. J. O'ROURKEI’m old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
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People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
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A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It’s a promissory note that doesn’t actually promise anything. It’s not backed by gold or silver.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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Don’t send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
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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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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren’t present.
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I read good. I was an English major.
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When I’m in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
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Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
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Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don’t draft people; it’s not jury duty.
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I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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