The 1960s was an era of big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt.
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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I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
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Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing hypocritical in his attempts to redistribute some of that wealth to himself.
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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren’t present.
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I’m too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom’s earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works.
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If you think health care is expensive now, just wait ’til it’s free.
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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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If you spend 72 hours in a place you’ve never been, talking to people whose language you don’t speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don’t understand, and you come back as the world’s biggest know-it-all, you’re a reporter. Either that or you’re President Obama.
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Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
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Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.
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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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The minute somebody joins a committee… they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.
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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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Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they’re right.
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