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Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.

P. J. O'Rourke

Just because a subject is serious doesn’t mean it doesn’t have plenty of absurdities.
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Just Mean Plenty Serious Subject
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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Alcohol Anyway Fundamental Look Source Tets Trouble
Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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Great Hubris One Renewable Resource
Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
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Election Explosion Positive Right Started
In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of ‘I hate strangers and anything that’s different.’
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Anything Conservatism Different Form Hate Matter Stranger Worse
What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it’s so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I’ve received a spam text.
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Bell Flower Occupy Person Pocket Search Small Vase
All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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Bad Change Done Sometimes
The world is being run by irresponsible spoiled brats.
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Being Brat Irresponsible Spoil World
Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
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Catch Contemporary Country English Flourish Phrase
There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as ‘caring’ and ‘sensitive’ because he wants to expand the government’s charitable programs is merely saying that he’s willing to try to do good with other people’s money.
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Advocate Charity Compulsory Government Merely Politician Virtue
You can’t destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America’s elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and about half the time, you’re doing us a favor.
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Country Detroit Down Elite History Think
Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they’re right.
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East Everybody Explain Middle Right
I rarely meet a politician that I don’t like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
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Dangerm Charm Meet Personal Politician Rare
There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
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Horizon Many Toledo Tree
Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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Country Destabilize Nation Religious
The weirder you’re going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.
P. J. O'ROURKE

Behave Four Go Look Normal Reverse Ring Three Weider

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