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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.

P. J. O'Rourke

There is only one thing that gives me hope as a Republican, and that is the Democrats. It’s going to be hard to do a worse job running American than the Republicans have, but if anybody can do it, it’s the Democrats.
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If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
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You can’t destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America’s elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and about half the time, you’re doing us a favor.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let’s hope so.
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
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Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization – an appeal to civilization itself.
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I read good. I was an English major.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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The Communist bloc of old was a study in the failure of failure. Losers in the Soviet economy were the people at the end of the long lines for consumer goods. Worse losers were the people who had spent hours getting to the head of the line, only to be told that the goods were unavailable.
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I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I’m not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
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Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.
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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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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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