The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to.
P. J. O'ROURKETeasing 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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Let’s reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools – and use it on the teachers.
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Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.
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Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
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Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
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A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It’s a promissory note that doesn’t actually promise anything. It’s not backed by gold or silver.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they’re right.
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If you think health care is expensive now, just wait ’til it’s free.
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Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
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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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Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.
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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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The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can’t do, shouldn’t do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.
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Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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