The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
P. J. O'ROURKEThe 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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There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
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Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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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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Term limits aren’t enough. We need jail.
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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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Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God’s grace.
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Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
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Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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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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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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If you think health care is expensive now, just wait ’til it’s free.
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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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