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

P. J. O'Rourke

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
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
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
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
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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Baby Band Boomer Covered Great People Silliness Type Underground
The most brilliant satire of all time was ‘A Modest Proposal’ by Jonathan Swift. You’ll notice how everything got straightened out in Ireland within days of that coming out.
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Brilliant Everything Midwest Most Notice Proposal Satire Straightforward Time
Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I’ve been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.
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Anticatalist Children Convince Example Occupy Thank Wall
Never fight an inanimate object.
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Fight Inanimate never Object
I read good. I was an English major.
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English Good Major Read
I believe in God. God created the world.
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Believe Create God World
I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.
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Event Favour Fiction Grace History Kind Please Write
Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How’d they get so rich? Because they’re free.
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Country Free Nokia Phone Plywood Rich
We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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Government Human Nature Need
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
The world is being run by irresponsible spoiled brats.
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Being Brat Irresponsible Spoil World
The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas – fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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Atomic Bed Big Bomb Century Idea Test

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