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You’re stupid,’ is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.

P. J. O'Rourke

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
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Bad Family Love Messy Pattern Wallpaper
Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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Expert Leader Nothing Political Say
All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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Bad Change Done Sometimes
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
I believe in God. God created the world.
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Believe Create God World
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.
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Democrat Government Lawn Make Party Republican Smarter
If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
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Government Illegal Product Sell
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
Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
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Benefit Divorce Good Long Married Stay Sympathy Ter
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes – the whole bag of tricks.
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Black Church Classical English People Preach Scheme Speak Troop
The 1960s was an era of big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt.
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Big Each Era Shirt Thought
Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they’re right.
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East Everybody Explain Middle Right
I read good. I was an English major.
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English Good Major Read
It’s better to make fun of yourself because you’ve always got someone around to make fun of, and they can’t sue you.
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Always Better Fun Make Someone Sure You
Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn’t matter.
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Cash Change Climate Climatologist Matter Maybe Research Threat Troll
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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Birthday Card Christmas Funeral Funny Greeting Need Save Send

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