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You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.

P. J. O'Rourke

Why do elites hate the poor? It’s xenophobia. They don’t know any poor people – except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don’t speak English.
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Book Elite English Except People Poor Speak Xenophobia
Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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Irritate Let More Nuisance Other President
There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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Away Men never One Sie Sooner Take Thing Women
In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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Another Brief Death History Impeach National Out President Thousand Worry
Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
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Economic Globalization Marketplace Open Simply World
Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.
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Benefit Bring Hero People Rich Wealth
I believe in God. God created the world.
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Believe Create God World
What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it’s so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I’ve received a spam text.
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Bell Flower Occupy Person Pocket Search Small Vase
The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there’s a reason for that – the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent – No Child Left Behind.
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Behind Civil Downfall Government Importance Local State Treat War
Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn’t matter.
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Cash Change Climate Climatologist Matter Maybe Research Threat Troll
If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
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Country Death Heard Shock Somebody Starved
No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession.
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Archive Career Doubt Politics Profession Ridiculous Right Success
There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as ‘caring’ and ‘sensitive’ because he wants to expand the government’s charitable programs is merely saying that he’s willing to try to do good with other people’s money.
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Advocate Charity Compulsory Government Merely Politician Virtue
The weirder you’re going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.
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Behave Four Go Look Normal Reverse Ring Three Weider
When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he’s saving a parking place.
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Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don’t draft people; it’s not jury duty.
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