In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of ‘I hate strangers and anything that’s different.’
P. J. O'ROURKEThe 1960s was an era of big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt.
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A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
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Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they’re right.
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Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
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It’s better to make fun of yourself because you’ve always got someone around to make fun of, and they can’t sue you.
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Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There’s more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it’s awfully close to human.
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America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being ‘hegemonistic’, of engaging in ‘unilateralism’, of behaving as if we’re the only nation on earth that counts. We are.
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Rich people don’t like to be in the military. The shoes are ugly and the uniforms itch. Rich people don’t go in much for revolution or terrorism, either.
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Term limits aren’t enough. We need jail.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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Just because a subject is serious doesn’t mean it doesn’t have plenty of absurdities.
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You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.
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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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