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'ROURKEWoodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they’re right.
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Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
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I believe in God. God created the world.
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Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
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The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that’s the point.
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We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren’t there.
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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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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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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 beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.
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A fundamental American question is, ‘What’s the big idea?’
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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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They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, ‘But doesn’t it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn’t it be set in New Guinea?’ And you say, ‘But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.’
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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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I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan.
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