The best and brightest don’t go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.
P. J. O'ROURKEMaking fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
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Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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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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If you think health care is expensive now, just wait ’til it’s free.
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Let’s reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools – and use it on the teachers.
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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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Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization – an appeal to civilization itself.
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People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
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Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There’s more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it’s awfully close to human.
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There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
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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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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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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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What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it’s so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I’ve received a spam text.
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