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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

Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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Again Born Cow Dairy Hunt Make Scope
If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
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Country Death Heard Shock Somebody Starved
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
I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a ‘learning experience.’ Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I’ve done as a ‘learning experience.’ It makes me feel less stupid.
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Again Anything Behaviour Done Experience Learn Sixties Stupid Think
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
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
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
Why do elites hate the poor? It’s xenophobia. They don’t know any poor people – except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don’t speak English.
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Book Elite English Except People Poor Speak Xenophobia
Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.
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Biological Child Each Fact Fatherhood Mother Requires Well
Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
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Catch Contemporary Country English Flourish Phrase
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
Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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Artistic Country Impact Life Tremendous Woodstock
Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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Edit Simply Surrender
I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.
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Carpenter Make Stop Terrible Thing Wood
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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Country Government Make Mystery People Stop
Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
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Achieve Attempt Merit Politics Power Prestige

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