The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
P. J. O'ROURKEThe minute somebody joins a committee… they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.
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Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
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You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
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Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.
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There isn’t much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.
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Never fight an inanimate object.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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I read good. I was an English major.
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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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You’re never going to read ‘The Wealth of Nations,’ and you shouldn’t, really. It’s 900 pages.
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Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they’re right.
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Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.
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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 20th century was a test bed for big ideas – fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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A fundamental American question is, ‘What’s the big idea?’
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The world is being run by irresponsible spoiled brats.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
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The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.
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People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
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The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the ’70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.
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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.
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