There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
P. J. O'ROURKEYou’re stupid,’ is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.
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Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
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America wasn’t founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
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People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
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The baby boomers’ politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle of that spectrum, but still, there’s been both leftie silliness and right-wing silliness.
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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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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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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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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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Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
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Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
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Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.
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Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
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If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
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