Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
P. J. O'ROURKEWhen elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he’s saving a parking place.
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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 young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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Regulation creates a moral hazard.
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The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.
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Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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Just because a subject is serious doesn’t mean it doesn’t have plenty of absurdities.
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Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
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Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
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Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
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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.
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There isn’t much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.
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Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I’m not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
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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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Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing hypocritical in his attempts to redistribute some of that wealth to himself.
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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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