Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
P. J. O'ROURKEIdeology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.
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People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
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You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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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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The baby boomers’ politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle of that spectrum, but still, there’s been both leftie silliness and right-wing silliness.
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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren’t present.
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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Once you’ve built the big machinery of political power, remember you won’t always be the one to run it.
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Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.
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The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It’s a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect.
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I read good. I was an English major.
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