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" Democrats hate Democrats most of all. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Democrats
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" Opinions of language are as interesting as opinions of arithmetic. "
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" If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas. "
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" As a nation, Kuwait has been, arguably, free of freedom itself. Claimed in turn by Constantinople, Riyadh, and Baghdad, Kuwait has survived by playing Turks off Persians, Arabs off one another, and the English off everyone. "
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" Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper. "
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" The killjoys initiated automobile crash standards so rigorous that we can't buy a car that hasn't been dropped from the top of a phone pole with our whole family strapped inside. "
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" Affirmative action makes employers think, 'Black woman nuclear physicist? Hah! Probably let her into Harvard 'cause they were looking for a twofer. Bet she got C's in high school practical math. Give her a job in personnel.' "
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" Hubris is one of the great renewable resources. "
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" If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters. "
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" 'You're stupid,' is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama. "
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" Earnestness is stupidity sent to college. "
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" I think the Baby Boom does have a tendency to get its nose in everything. The Greatest Generation had a better tendency to leave people alone. Of course, they also had a better tendency to hate everybody's guts. "
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" Medical researchers don't know much about head lice because they don't much care. The reason that they don't much care is, paradoxically, that they know a lot. That is, they know one important thing: there is no evidence that head lice transmit disease. "
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" Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else. "
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" The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail. "
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" The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help. "
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" Jimmy Carter was - he still - he remains to this day America's most ex of ex-presidents. You just can't believe that we elected this doofus. He was a bright enough guy and sort of well-meaning. But he was about as prepared to be president of the United States as your goofy old uncle, you know, the one that memorises baseball statistics. "
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" The foundation of collectivism is simple: There should be no important economic differences among people. No one should be too rich. "
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" Who, other than a crazy person, does anything besides hang up on a robo-call? Any call, any person, anywhere, under any circumstances. "
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" I am a student of stupidity. I am a political reporter. "
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" Of all the American educational system's problems, none is more severe than the academic year beginning before Labor Day. "
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" There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon. "
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" A friend of mine at the American Enterprise Institute says there are two parties: the silly party and the stupid party. I'm too old for the silly party, so I had to join the stupid party. "
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" In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America. "
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" Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn't exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments. "
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" Simply because something is a populist movement doesn't make it either good or bad. "
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" Raining on parades requires no skill or effort on the part of a politician. "
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" Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war. "
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" I don't understand anything about America's culture. "
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