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Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I’m not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

P. J. O'Rourke

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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Another Brief Death History Impeach National Out President Thousand Worry
I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a ‘learning experience.’ Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I’ve done as a ‘learning experience.’ It makes me feel less stupid.
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Again Anything Behaviour Done Experience Learn Sixties Stupid Think
The weirder you’re going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.
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Behave Four Go Look Normal Reverse Ring Three Weider
Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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Again Born Cow Dairy Hunt Make Scope
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
As a former writer for the ‘National Lampoon,’ I’ve probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live.
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Former Live National Sarcasm Seam Probably Writer
Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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Great Hubris One Renewable Resource
Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.
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Everybody Extent Xenophobia
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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Book Elite English Except People Poor Speak Xenophobia
I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.
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Carpenter Make Stop Terrible Thing Wood
Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
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Develop Excercise Humor Just Kid Mak Planter Sense Tease
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 was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
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Country Favor Invasion Mush
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
Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
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Country Else Government Idea Prefer Sensible Somebody
Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.
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Biological Child Each Fact Fatherhood Mother Requires Well

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