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Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How’d they get so rich? Because they’re free.

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Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there’s a reason for that – the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent – No Child Left Behind.
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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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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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The people who despise America are the editors of the ‘New Statesman.’ Their green-card applications must have been turned down.
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Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
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I believe in God. God created the world.
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There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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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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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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Anything Dad Die Fellow Haste Marry Mom Sense Young
Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.
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America wasn’t founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.
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Anything Better Country Damned Found Please
Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
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A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It’s a promissory note that doesn’t actually promise anything. It’s not backed by gold or silver.
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Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How’d they get so rich? Because they’re free.

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