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.
P. J. O'ROURKEIsrael is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.
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There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
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Adam Smith’s huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
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Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
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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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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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Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
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I don’t even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I’ve never used a computer.
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You’re never going to read ‘The Wealth of Nations,’ and you shouldn’t, really. It’s 900 pages.
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The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that’s the point.
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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
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