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The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the ’70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.

P. J. O'Rourke

When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he’s saving a parking place.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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Adam Smith’s huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
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A fundamental American question is, ‘What’s the big idea?’
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I’m too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom’s earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works.
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Never fight an inanimate object.
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The budget doesn’t have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn’t have much control over the budget.
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Again Budget Control Government Much Over
Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
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I believe in God. God created the world.
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Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
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We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren’t there.
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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
You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they’re going.
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The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the ’70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.

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