Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
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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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 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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The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the ’70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.
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Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
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You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God’s infinite mercy, a last resort.
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Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How’d they get so rich? Because they’re free.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of ‘I hate strangers and anything that’s different.’
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Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let’s hope so.
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Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
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When I’m in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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I read good. I was an English major.
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I’m too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom’s earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works.
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The people who despise America are the editors of the ‘New Statesman.’ Their green-card applications must have been turned down.
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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.
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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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Adam Smith’s huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
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The best and brightest don’t go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.
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Just because a subject is serious doesn’t mean it doesn’t have plenty of absurdities.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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