Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
P. J. O'ROURKEComputers 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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My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow… he wasn’t evil or anything, but he was worthless.
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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 most brilliant satire of all time was ‘A Modest Proposal’ by Jonathan Swift. You’ll notice how everything got straightened out in Ireland within days of that coming out.
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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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America wasn’t founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.
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Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
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Just because a subject is serious doesn’t mean it doesn’t have plenty of absurdities.
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You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You’d better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
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If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
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Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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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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Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
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Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
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