Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
P. J. O'ROURKEStupid is a great force in human affairs.
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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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Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you’ve never been, talking to people whose language you don’t speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don’t understand, and you come back as the world’s biggest know-it-all, you’re a reporter. Either that or you’re President Obama.
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Global warming is a fact. Now it’s up to liberals to make it a reality. Hence there is crucial importance in preventing powerful, greedy free market forces from getting in the way of worsening storms and rising sea levels. The Kyoto Accord is a good first step.
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Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God’s grace.
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Adam Smith’s huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
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The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you’re rich.
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If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
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Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
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You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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The best and brightest don’t go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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