No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
P. J. O'ROURKEThe mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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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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The weirder you’re going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of ‘I hate strangers and anything that’s different.’
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You’re never going to read ‘The Wealth of Nations,’ and you shouldn’t, really. It’s 900 pages.
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Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don’t draft people; it’s not jury duty.
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow… he wasn’t evil or anything, but he was worthless.
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Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let’s hope so.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you’ve never been, talking to people whose language you don’t speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don’t understand, and you come back as the world’s biggest know-it-all, you’re a reporter. Either that or you’re President Obama.
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If you think health care is expensive now, just wait ’til it’s free.
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As a former writer for the ‘National Lampoon,’ I’ve probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
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I’m old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
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