Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino’s box.
P. J. O'ROURKERussians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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You can’t destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America’s elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and about half the time, you’re doing us a favor.
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Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
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Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn’t matter.
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Adam Smith’s huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it’s a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also – to do the lawn and clean the gutters.
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Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
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The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you’re rich.
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I believe in God. God created the world.
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There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.
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Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
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There isn’t much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.
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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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