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Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.

P. J. O'Rourke

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
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Come Creep Duty Enfeeble Evil Human Law Plan Rule
The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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Country Factor Put Room Themselves Two
The world is being run by irresponsible spoiled brats.
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Being Brat Irresponsible Spoil World
Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
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Difficult Discipline Parent Properly Size
Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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Great Hubris One Renewable Resource
I rarely meet a politician that I don’t like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
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Dangerm Charm Meet Personal Politician Rare
Call a man ‘ignorant,’ and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
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Call Him Ignorant Knowledge Licence Man Show Vast Wise
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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Divorce Prior Rate Reason Relation Seventy Until Veen
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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Around Brown Country Dog Everything Except House Kid Look
Supposedly, summer vacation happens because that’s when the kids are home from school, although having the kids home from school is no vacation. And supposedly the kids are home from school because of some vestigial throwback to our agricultural past.
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Done Endless Foreigner God Like Lousy Party Politics School Some Thing Wrong
People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it’s simply a measurement.
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Bathroom Market None People Philosophy Scale Thing Think Those
We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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Government Human Nature Need
You’re never going to read ‘The Wealth of Nations,’ and you shouldn’t, really. It’s 900 pages.
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Going Hundred Nation Nine Page Read Reality Wealth
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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Behave Four Go Look Normal Reverse Ring Three Weider
Why do elites hate the poor? It’s xenophobia. They don’t know any poor people – except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don’t speak English.
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Book Elite English Except People Poor Speak Xenophobia
Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
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Bureaucracy Dispose Dump Government Propose

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