To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You’d better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
P. J. O'ROURKELiberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.
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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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Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
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I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
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I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.
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If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
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The best and brightest don’t go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.
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Term limits aren’t enough. We need jail.
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Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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You’re never going to read ‘The Wealth of Nations,’ and you shouldn’t, really. It’s 900 pages.
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Never fight an inanimate object.
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A fundamental American question is, ‘What’s the big idea?’
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The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.
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Don’t send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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