Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they’re right.
P. J. O'ROURKEThe C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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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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We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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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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Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino’s box.
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Liberals have invented whole college majors – psychology, sociology and women’s studies – to prove that nothing is anybody’s fault.
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Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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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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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there’s a reason for that – the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent – No Child Left Behind.
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Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
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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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You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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