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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.

P. J. O'Rourke

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
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
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
You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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Give Money People Poverty Rid
Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don’t draft people; it’s not jury duty.
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Draft Duty People Political Politician Select Self System
Term limits aren’t enough. We need jail.
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Enough Jail Limit Need Term
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
A humorist doesn’t really do that much note-taking.
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Humorist Much Note Really Talk
I believe in God. God created the world.
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Believe Create God World
Never fight an inanimate object.
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Fight Inanimate never Object
Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren’t present.
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Flatter Gossip Object Present
Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
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Catch Contemporary Country English Flourish Phrase
The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can’t do, shouldn’t do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.
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Better Body Forever Lesson Often Older Presence Sort Teach Thing
The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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Restaurant Review Start Student
Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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Expert Leader Nothing Political Say
There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as ‘caring’ and ‘sensitive’ because he wants to expand the government’s charitable programs is merely saying that he’s willing to try to do good with other people’s money.
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Advocate Charity Compulsory Government Merely Politician Virtue

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