The 1960s was an era of big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt.
P. J. O'ROURKEA humorist doesn’t really do that much note-taking.
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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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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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Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
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Don’t send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
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Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.
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When you’re a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, ‘Gee, I wouldn’t want to be doing that.’ They’re on your side.
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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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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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of ‘I hate strangers and anything that’s different.’
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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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