In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of ‘I hate strangers and anything that’s different.’
P. J. O'ROURKEStaying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
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Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
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The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you’re rich.
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We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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Let’s reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools – and use it on the teachers.
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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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As a former writer for the ‘National Lampoon,’ I’ve probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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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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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas – fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino’s box.
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Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
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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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If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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