I don’t even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I’ve never used a computer.
P. J. O'ROURKEYou 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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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
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People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it’s simply a measurement.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it.
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I’m old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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Never fight an inanimate object.
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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, ‘But doesn’t it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn’t it be set in New Guinea?’ And you say, ‘But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.’
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The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.
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Call a man ‘ignorant,’ and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
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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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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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Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
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