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Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.

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
You’re stupid,’ is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.
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Critics Most President Serve Something Stupid Usually
No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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Collapse Daily False Industry Journalism Memory Print
Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it’s got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It’s not pretty. But it’s striking, I’ll give it that. It’s not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
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Actual City Country Give Kind Nearly Over Pretty Strik Top
There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.
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Car Chief Device Increase Mechanical Number Particularly
I read good. I was an English major.
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English Good Major Read
Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing hypocritical in his attempts to redistribute some of that wealth to himself.
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Attempt Believe Hypocrite Man Moral President Redistribute
The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that’s the point.
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Know People Pont Poor Purpose Real Welfare
Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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Belt Cigarette Government Hazard Helth Kill Many More People Set
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
America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being ‘hegemonistic’, of engaging in ‘unilateralism’, of behaving as if we’re the only nation on earth that counts. We are.
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Accuse Act Behave Being Country Engage Unilateralism
Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God’s infinite mercy, a last resort.
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Endless Foreigner God Lousy Politics Right Wrong
If you spend 72 hours in a place you’ve never been, talking to people whose language you don’t speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don’t understand, and you come back as the world’s biggest know-it-all, you’re a reporter. Either that or you’re President Obama.
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Economic Hour Language People Place Political Seventy Social Spend Talk Two
Liberals have invented whole college majors – psychology, sociology and women’s studies – to prove that nothing is anybody’s fault.
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Fault Invent Liberal Major Psychology Sociology Study Women
I’ve got a 1990 Porsche 911. It’s just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
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Got Little Love Simple Straightforward Thing
Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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Great Hubris One Renewable Resource
Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.
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Benefit Bring Hero People Rich Wealth
I believe in God. God created the world.
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Believe Create God World
Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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Annoyance Conundrum Necessary Politics
The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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Adept Avoid Even Learn More Young
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
Let’s reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools – and use it on the teachers.
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Corporal Introduce Let Punishment School Tracker Use
People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
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Ant Bee Collective Live Love People Reason
Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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Black People Reformer Some Think Voter
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
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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Except Love never Unfaithful Wife
Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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Country Destabilize Nation Religious

Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.

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Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.

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