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Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.

P. J. O'Rourke

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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Black Church Classical English People Preach Scheme Speak Troop
Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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Black People Reformer Some Think Voter
Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
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College Seriousness Stupiditym Sent
You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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Give Money People Poverty Rid
Regulation creates a moral hazard.
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Create Hazard Morale Regulation
Adam Smith’s huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
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Fact Failure Forces Huge Industrial People Revolution
Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they’re right.
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East Everybody Explain Middle Right
Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.
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Bay Country Effect Small Tribe
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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Except Love never Unfaithful Wife
A humorist doesn’t really do that much note-taking.
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Humorist Much Note Really Talk
The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It’s a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect.
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Amount Ample But Country Dry Land Much Problem Run Water
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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Ask Children Clean Cook Down Government Hold Problem Solve
Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
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Benefit Divorce Good Long Married Stay Sympathy Ter
The budget doesn’t have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn’t have much control over the budget.
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Again Budget Control Government Much Over
Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
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Election Explosion Positive Right Started
Never fight an inanimate object.
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Fight Inanimate never Object

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