Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
P. J. O'ROURKEMikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren’t present.
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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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I’ve got a 1990 Porsche 911. It’s just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan.
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Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I’ve been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
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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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Supposedly, summer vacation happens because that’s when the kids are home from school, although having the kids home from school is no vacation. And supposedly the kids are home from school because of some vestigial throwback to our agricultural past.
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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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Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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