Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
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Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.
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You’re stupid,’ is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.
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The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.
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Never fight an inanimate object.
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Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.
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Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn’t exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.
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The world is being run by irresponsible spoiled brats.
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Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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Once you’ve built the big machinery of political power, remember you won’t always be the one to run it.
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A humorist doesn’t really do that much note-taking.
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Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
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The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.
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You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they’re going.
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There is only one thing that gives me hope as a Republican, and that is the Democrats. It’s going to be hard to do a worse job running American than the Republicans have, but if anybody can do it, it’s the Democrats.
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