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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

P. J. O'Rourke

Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
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Difficult Discipline Parent Properly Size
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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Birthday Card Christmas Funeral Funny Greeting Need Save Send
Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.
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Broken Interest Like More Paint Person Place Probably Sensible
Just because a subject is serious doesn’t mean it doesn’t have plenty of absurdities.
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Just Mean Plenty Serious Subject
People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
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Always Anything People Tell Truth
The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the ’70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.
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Divorce Prior Rate Reason Relation Seventy Until Veen
The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren’t carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth.
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Carry Country Crow Exile Extermination Law Passage Perpetuation Savery
Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it’s got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It’s not pretty. But it’s striking, I’ll give it that. It’s not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
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Actual City Country Give Kind Nearly Over Pretty Strik Top
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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Except Love never Unfaithful Wife
We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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Government Human Nature Need
A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
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Greet Hat Lady Nothing Off Stupid Taken
I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a ‘learning experience.’ Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I’ve done as a ‘learning experience.’ It makes me feel less stupid.
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Again Anything Behaviour Done Experience Learn Sixties Stupid Think
Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
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Bureaucracy Dispose Dump Government Propose
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
Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
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Cleanliness Godliness Important More Unlikely
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes – the whole bag of tricks.
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Black Church Classical English People Preach Scheme Speak Troop

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