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People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.

P. J. O'Rourke

People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
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Ant Bee Collective Live Love People Reason
The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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Restaurant Review Start Student
Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don’t draft people; it’s not jury duty.
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Draft Duty People Political Politician Select Self System
The best and brightest don’t go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.
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Best Bright Brightest Goldman Politics
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
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Come Creep Duty Enfeeble Evil Human Law Plan Rule
Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
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College Seriousness Stupiditym Sent
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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Anticatalist Children Convince Example Occupy Thank Wall
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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Car Country End Ernt Reliable Say Thousand
Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.
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Bit Difficult Express Fiction Government More Past Size Something
Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.
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Benefit Bring Hero People Rich Wealth
It’s better to make fun of yourself because you’ve always got someone around to make fun of, and they can’t sue you.
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Always Better Fun Make Someone Sure You
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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Got Little Love Simple Straightforward Thing
If you think health care is expensive now, just wait ’til it’s free.
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Care Expensive Free Health Now Think Wait
People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
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Always Anything People Tell Truth
Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.
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Creep Economy Enfeeble Evil Image Individual Law Rule
No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it’s probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
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Answer History Human Humor Literacy Obligation Probably Provide Under

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