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Liberals 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.

P. J. O'Rourke

If you spend 72 hours in a place you’ve never been, talking to people whose language you don’t speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don’t understand, and you come back as the world’s biggest know-it-all, you’re a reporter. Either that or you’re President Obama.
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Economic Hour Language People Place Political Seventy Social Spend Talk Two
Term limits aren’t enough. We need jail.
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Enough Jail Limit Need Term
There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it.
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Beyond Business Certain Complexity Fraud Legislation Rule Simply Time
Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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Balck Believe Country Despite People Vehemently
The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.
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Classroom Problem Public School Underfund Union
The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you’re rich.
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According Everything Good News President Richm Pay
Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization – an appeal to civilization itself.
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Appeal Effective Itself Organization Powerful Response Right Social Sometimes
Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.
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Bay Country Effect Small Tribe
The minute somebody joins a committee… they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.
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Brain Community Enthusiastic Immediately Join Minute Somebody Suffer
The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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Adept Avoid Even Learn More Young
I rarely meet a politician that I don’t like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
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Dangerm Charm Meet Personal Politician Rare
The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can’t do, shouldn’t do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.
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Better Body Forever Lesson Often Older Presence Sort Teach Thing
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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Country Dump Observant People Rather Secular
The budget doesn’t have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn’t have much control over the budget.
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Again Budget Control Government Much Over
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
Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There’s more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it’s awfully close to human.
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Adaptively Computer Little Native Odd Science Seem Social Society Strange

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