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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren’t present.

P. J. O'Rourke

America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being ‘hegemonistic’, of engaging in ‘unilateralism’, of behaving as if we’re the only nation on earth that counts. We are.
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Accuse Act Behave Being Country Engage Unilateralism
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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Buy Control First Legislator Sell Sold
You 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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Ask Came Children Form Go Grow Know Tell
Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.
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Bay Country Effect Small Tribe
Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
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Bad Family Love Messy Pattern Wallpaper
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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Big Each Era Shirt Thought
Once you’ve built the big machinery of political power, remember you won’t always be the one to run it.
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Always Build Machinery Once One Political Remember Rum
A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It’s a promissory note that doesn’t actually promise anything. It’s not backed by gold or silver.
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Actually Dollar Federal Promise Research Silver
Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren’t present.
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Flatter Gossip Object Present
The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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Restaurant Review Start Student
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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Except Love never Unfaithful Wife
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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Country Government Make Mystery People Stop
Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God’s infinite mercy, a last resort.
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Endless Foreigner God Lousy Politics Right Wrong
Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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Children Everybody Except Know People Raise
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
I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan.
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Country Dump Observant People Rather Secular

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