Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
P. J. O'ROURKEThe body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can’t do, shouldn’t do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.
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There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
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Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.
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Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it’s got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It’s not pretty. But it’s striking, I’ll give it that. It’s not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I’m not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
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If you think health care is expensive now, just wait ’til it’s free.
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People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
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Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
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I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan.
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