I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I’m not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
P. J. O'ROURKEThe 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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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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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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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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There isn’t much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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I read good. I was an English major.
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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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You’re never going to read ‘The Wealth of Nations,’ and you shouldn’t, really. It’s 900 pages.
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I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan.
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The weirder you’re going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.
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Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn’t matter.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
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