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.
P. J. O'ROURKELet’s reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools – and use it on the teachers.
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If you think health care is expensive now, just wait ’til it’s free.
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Every vote should carry a serial number, so that responsibility for harmful or careless use of the vote can be traced. Concealed voting should be outlawed.
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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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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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There isn’t much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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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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Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.
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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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Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization – an appeal to civilization itself.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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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 don’t even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I’ve never used a computer.
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New Hampshire polling data are unreliable because, when you call the Granite State’s registered Republicans and independents in the middle of dinner and ask them who they’re going to vote for, they have a mouth full of mashed potatoes and you can’t understand what they say.
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