Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
P. J. O'ROURKESouthern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
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Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino’s box.
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas – fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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I’ve got a 1990 Porsche 911. It’s just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
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Never wear anything that panics the cat.
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Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.
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The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren’t carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth.
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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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Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization – an appeal to civilization itself.
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When I’m in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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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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