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Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization – an appeal to civilization itself.

P. J. O'Rourke

Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
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Economic Globalization Marketplace Open Simply World
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
Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
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Carefully Child Children Concert Explain Inform Make Threaten Young
The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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Restaurant Review Start Student
Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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Black People Reformer Some Think Voter
In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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Another Brief Death History Impeach National Out President Thousand Worry
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
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes – the whole bag of tricks.
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Black Church Classical English People Preach Scheme Speak Troop
In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of ‘I hate strangers and anything that’s different.’
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Anything Conservatism Different Form Hate Matter Stranger Worse
To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You’d better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
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Better Human Method Mistrust Resign Science Validity Work
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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Democrat Government Lawn Make Party Republican Smarter
You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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Give Money People Poverty Rid
The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren’t carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth.
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Carry Country Crow Exile Extermination Law Passage Perpetuation Savery
People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
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Always Anything People Tell Truth
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
Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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Balck Believe Country Despite People Vehemently

Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization – an appeal to civilization itself.

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