There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
P. J. O'ROURKEArab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing hypocritical in his attempts to redistribute some of that wealth to himself.
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The Communist bloc of old was a study in the failure of failure. Losers in the Soviet economy were the people at the end of the long lines for consumer goods. Worse losers were the people who had spent hours getting to the head of the line, only to be told that the goods were unavailable.
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Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it.
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Why do elites hate the poor? It’s xenophobia. They don’t know any poor people – except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don’t speak English.
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It’s better to make fun of yourself because you’ve always got someone around to make fun of, and they can’t sue you.
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A fundamental American question is, ‘What’s the big idea?’
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
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Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
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