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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas – fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.

P. J. O'Rourke

The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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Restaurant Review Start Student
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas – fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that’s the point.
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Big Each Era Shirt Thought
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Car Chief Device Increase Mechanical Number Particularly
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The baby boomers’ politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle of that spectrum, but still, there’s been both leftie silliness and right-wing silliness.
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