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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.

P. J. O'Rourke

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
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Carefully Child Children Concert Explain Inform Make Threaten Young
Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
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Bad Family Love Messy Pattern Wallpaper
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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Bright Feel Good Government Look Quit Side
Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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Agriculture Business Dinner Fertilizer Grant Indian Overall Politics Thanksgiving
Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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Cater Communist Country Hate People Person
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.
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Everybody Everything Happy Idea Insane Law Liberal
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
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
Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn’t matter.
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Cash Change Climate Climatologist Matter Maybe Research Threat Troll
Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
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Accept Blink Eye Gay Happen Marriage
Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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Balck Believe Country Despite People Vehemently
If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it’s a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also – to do the lawn and clean the gutters.
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Ask Children Clean Cook Down Government Hold Problem Solve
If you think health care is expensive now, just wait ’til it’s free.
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Care Expensive Free Health Now Think Wait
Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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Artistic Country Impact Life Tremendous Woodstock
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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Alcohol Anyway Fundamental Look Source Tets Trouble
Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
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College Seriousness Stupiditym Sent

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