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.
P. J. O'ROURKEEven 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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Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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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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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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I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.
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Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession.
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Call a man ‘ignorant,’ and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
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Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
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Adam Smith’s huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
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Regulation creates a moral hazard.
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If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
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When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he’s saving a parking place.
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Rich people don’t like to be in the military. The shoes are ugly and the uniforms itch. Rich people don’t go in much for revolution or terrorism, either.
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