I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.
P. J. O'ROURKEThe budget doesn’t have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn’t have much control over the budget.
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Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
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If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat – in other words, turn you into an adult.
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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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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
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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 is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas – fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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I read good. I was an English major.
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I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a ‘learning experience.’ Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I’ve done as a ‘learning experience.’ It makes me feel less stupid.
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Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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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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You’re stupid,’ is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.
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