I believe in God. God created the world.
P. J. O'ROURKEEach child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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I don’t even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I’ve never used a computer.
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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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Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization – an appeal to civilization itself.
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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.
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Liberals have invented whole college majors – psychology, sociology and women’s studies – to prove that nothing is anybody’s fault.
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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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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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A humorist doesn’t really do that much note-taking.
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By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire.
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There isn’t much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.
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I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
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Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino’s box.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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