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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Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn’t exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.
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I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
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Adam Smith’s huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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I believe in God. God created the world.
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Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there’s a reason for that – the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent – No Child Left Behind.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow… he wasn’t evil or anything, but he was worthless.
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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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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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Never fight an inanimate object.
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The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.
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Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I’m not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
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