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People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.

P. J. O'Rourke

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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Give Government Money Poer Teenage Whiskey
The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas – fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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Atomic Bed Big Bomb Century Idea Test
A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
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Greet Hat Lady Nothing Off Stupid Taken
Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
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Accept Blink Eye Gay Happen Marriage
Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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Great Hubris One Renewable Resource
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
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Always Die Good Look Make Middle Read Something
If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
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Country Death Heard Shock Somebody Starved
The baby boomers’ politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle of that spectrum, but still, there’s been both leftie silliness and right-wing silliness.
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Baby Band Boomer Covered Great People Silliness Type Underground
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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Country Free Nokia Phone Plywood Rich
Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I’ve been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.
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Anticatalist Children Convince Example Occupy Thank Wall
Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
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Country Else Government Idea Prefer Sensible Somebody
When I’m in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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Car Only Shout
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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Alcohol Anyway Fundamental Look Source Tets Trouble
The minute somebody joins a committee… they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.
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Brain Community Enthusiastic Immediately Join Minute Somebody Suffer
There is only one thing that gives me hope as a Republican, and that is the Democrats. It’s going to be hard to do a worse job running American than the Republicans have, but if anybody can do it, it’s the Democrats.
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Democrat Great Hope Job One Republican Run Thing
By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire.
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Car Country End Ernt Reliable Say Thousand

People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.

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