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Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

P. J. O'Rourke

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
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Country Else Government Idea Prefer Sensible Somebody
Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.
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Benefit Bring Hero People Rich Wealth
Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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Expert Leader Nothing Political Say
There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
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Horizon Many Toledo Tree
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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Anticatalist Children Convince Example Occupy Thank Wall
There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it.
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Beyond Business Certain Complexity Fraud Legislation Rule Simply Time
There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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Away Men never One Sie Sooner Take Thing Women
Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
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Bureaucracy Dispose Dump Government Propose
Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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I know quite a few fellow members of the news analysis and commentary business, and I have it from the highest-placed sources, on the record, that each and every one of our children is a genius.
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Analysis Commentary Fellow High Member News Place Quite Source
Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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Balck Believe Country Despite People Vehemently
Once you’ve built the big machinery of political power, remember you won’t always be the one to run it.
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Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don’t draft people; it’s not jury duty.
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Draft Duty People Political Politician Select Self System
Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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Children Everybody Except Know People Raise
Supposedly, summer vacation happens because that’s when the kids are home from school, although having the kids home from school is no vacation. And supposedly the kids are home from school because of some vestigial throwback to our agricultural past.
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Done Endless Foreigner God Like Lousy Party Politics School Some Thing Wrong
The most brilliant satire of all time was ‘A Modest Proposal’ by Jonathan Swift. You’ll notice how everything got straightened out in Ireland within days of that coming out.
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