Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
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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The best and brightest don’t go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.
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Never fight an inanimate object.
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The budget doesn’t have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn’t have much control over the budget.
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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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You’re never going to read ‘The Wealth of Nations,’ and you shouldn’t, really. It’s 900 pages.
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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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Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they’re right.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas – fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I’m not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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I’ve got a 1990 Porsche 911. It’s just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
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Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There’s more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it’s awfully close to human.
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Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
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People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
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