There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
P. J. O'ROURKEPeople are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
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Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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Term limits aren’t enough. We need jail.
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I read good. I was an English major.
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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren’t present.
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Liberals have invented whole college majors – psychology, sociology and women’s studies – to prove that nothing is anybody’s fault.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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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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Supposedly, summer vacation happens because that’s when the kids are home from school, although having the kids home from school is no vacation. And supposedly the kids are home from school because of some vestigial throwback to our agricultural past.
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If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
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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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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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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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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of ‘I hate strangers and anything that’s different.’
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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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