There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.
P. J. O'ROURKEIf you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat – in other words, turn you into an adult.
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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 1960s was an era of big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt.
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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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Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.
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I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.
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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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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas – fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they’re right.
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I’m old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
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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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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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The world is being run by irresponsible spoiled brats.
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Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
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Don’t send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
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