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Term limits aren’t enough. We need jail.

P. J. O'Rourke

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
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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Advocate Charity Compulsory Government Merely Politician Virtue
I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan.
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Country Dump Observant People Rather Secular
Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God’s grace.
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Death Enough Escape God Help Important Jeep Son Therefore Wrong
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
Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.
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Bright Feel Good Government Look Quit Side
I read good. I was an English major.
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English Good Major Read
The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren’t carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth.
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Carry Country Crow Exile Extermination Law Passage Perpetuation Savery
The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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Adept Avoid Even Learn More Young
All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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Bad Change Done Sometimes
Term limits aren’t enough. We need jail.
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Enough Jail Limit Need Term
A fundamental American question is, ‘What’s the big idea?’
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Big Country Fundamental Ideas Question
Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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Children Everybody Except Know People Raise
I’m too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom’s earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works.
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Earn Earring Mom Pubescent Sensitive Some Tongue Toug Twerp
Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
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Catch Contemporary Country English Flourish Phrase
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
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Always Die Good Look Make Middle Read Something

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