Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
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Regulation creates a moral hazard.
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Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
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I read good. I was an English major.
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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren’t present.
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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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The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It’s a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect.
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The minute somebody joins a committee… they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.
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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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There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as ‘caring’ and ‘sensitive’ because he wants to expand the government’s charitable programs is merely saying that he’s willing to try to do good with other people’s money.
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If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
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The people who despise America are the editors of the ‘New Statesman.’ Their green-card applications must have been turned down.
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Liberals have invented whole college majors – psychology, sociology and women’s studies – to prove that nothing is anybody’s fault.
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Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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Don’t send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
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If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
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