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America wasn’t founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.

P. J. O'Rourke

All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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Bad Change Done Sometimes
Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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Great Hubris One Renewable Resource
To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You’d better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
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Better Human Method Mistrust Resign Science Validity Work
Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There’s more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it’s awfully close to human.
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Adaptively Computer Little Native Odd Science Seem Social Society Strange
Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
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Accept Blink Eye Gay Happen Marriage
They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, ‘But doesn’t it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn’t it be set in New Guinea?’ And you say, ‘But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.’
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Absolute Love People Really Say Script Stupid Write
Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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Irritate Let More Nuisance Other President
Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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Cater Communist Country Hate People Person
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
I’m old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
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Country Dirty Enough Now Old Over Remember
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
Term limits aren’t enough. We need jail.
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Enough Jail Limit Need Term
No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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Collapse Daily False Industry Journalism Memory Print
Regulation creates a moral hazard.
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Create Hazard Morale Regulation
There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.
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Car Chief Device Increase Mechanical Number Particularly
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

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