Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
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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Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession.
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Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
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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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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
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There isn’t much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.
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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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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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A humorist doesn’t really do that much note-taking.
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Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I’ve been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.
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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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If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
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