Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
P. J. O'ROURKEPeople think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it’s simply a measurement.
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The 1960s was an era of big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it’s probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
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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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Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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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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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.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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I’ve got a 1990 Porsche 911. It’s just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes – the whole bag of tricks.
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Adam Smith’s huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
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Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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The world is being run by irresponsible spoiled brats.
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Just because a subject is serious doesn’t mean it doesn’t have plenty of absurdities.
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