I’m too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom’s earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works.
P. J. O'ROURKEI’ve got a 1990 Porsche 911. It’s just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
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I believe in God. God created the world.
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The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the ’70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.
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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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The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas – fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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The world is being run by irresponsible spoiled brats.
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Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There’s more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it’s awfully close to human.
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