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" A deadly sins addendum is long overdue. Life has changed since Pope Gregory the Great scribbled his initial list in the sixth century. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Long
Changed
Great
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" After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi. "
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" Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country. "
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" Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate. "
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" Some taxpayers may object to a print journalism bailout on the grounds that it mostly benefits the liberal elite. And we can't blame taxpayers for being reluctant to subsidize the reportorial careers of J-school twerps who should have joined the Peace Corps and gone to Africa to 'speak truth to power' to Robert Mugabe. "
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" Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior. "
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" You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate. "
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" Raining on parades requires no skill or effort on the part of a politician. "
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" A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking. "
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" Network television has been attempting to lure viewers for years with its low-interest programming only to have those viewers discover later that their brains are bankrupt. "
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" Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. "
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Your
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" Global warming is a fact. Now it's up to liberals to make it a reality. Hence there is crucial importance in preventing powerful, greedy free market forces from getting in the way of worsening storms and rising sea levels. The Kyoto Accord is a good first step. "
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Good
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" Liberals consider people to be nuisances. "
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" Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. "
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Alcohol
Ignorance
" In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes. "
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Government
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" I'm a rather decisive type. "
P. J. O'Rourke
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Type
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" Even Jimmy Carter can't be wrong all the time. "
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" Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics. "
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Mine
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" Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per citizen over the age of eighteen. "
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Voting
Over
Age
" If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Heard
Death
Somebody
" I've never been able to get it straight about what these people who are worried about the trade deficit are worried about. "
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Never
Trade
People
" Harvard is the home of American ideas. "
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Ideas
Home
American
" I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger. "
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Charm
" Arguing, in the sense of attempting to convince others, has gone out of fashion with conservatives. "
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Arguing
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" People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans. "
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America
Anger
" Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they turn blue. "
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You
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" Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let's hope so. "
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" I was never a Democrat. I went from Republican to Maoist and then back again. "
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" The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative. "
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" Never wear anything that panics the cat. "
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Cat
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" Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life. "
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Life
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