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The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock? (P. J. O'Rourke)
Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising. View quote
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There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees. View quote
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions. View quote
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Demolishing pretensions, especially worthy ones, is a hallmark of the baby boom. View quote
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The most futuristic aspect of the House of the Future was that it was made almost entirely of plastic. View quote
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I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived. View quote
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Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less. View quote
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it. View quote
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We did not become libertarians because we are altruists. View quote
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A fundamental American question is, 'What's the big idea?' (P. J. O'Rourke)
Like it or not, I've come to appreciate soccer. Any kid can play, which fits with the inclusive agenda of progressive schools. Although the corollary to 'any kid can play' is that every kid must play because there is an iron grip to the warm hug of progressive inclusionism. View quote
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There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion. View quote
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In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank, thwarted in ambition, aging gracelessly, mad at the cosmos, and ashamed of his own jejune ideals. He is nevertheless very dear to me. View quote
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One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army. View quote
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The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It's a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect. View quote
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Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading. View quote
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America is not doctrinaire. It's hard for an American politician to come up with an ideological position that is permanently unforgivable. View quote
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People love to be told what they know already. View quote
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My life would have gone along perfectly well, politically speaking, if it hadn't been for girls. View quote
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America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief. (P. J. O'Rourke)
One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license. View quote
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Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink. View quote
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The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen. View quote
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With Epcot Center, the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse than regular life. View quote
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