People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
P. J. O'ROURKEYou know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they’re going.
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Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.
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When I’m in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
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The best and brightest don’t go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.
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The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can’t do, shouldn’t do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.
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Call a man ‘ignorant,’ and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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The baby boomers’ politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle of that spectrum, but still, there’s been both leftie silliness and right-wing silliness.
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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Let’s reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools – and use it on the teachers.
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You’re stupid,’ is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.
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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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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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Never wear anything that panics the cat.
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You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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