You’re never going to read ‘The Wealth of Nations,’ and you shouldn’t, really. It’s 900 pages.
P. J. O'ROURKE
Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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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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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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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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Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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I believe in God. God created the world.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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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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People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
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I’m old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
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America wasn’t founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.
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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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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it’s probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
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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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