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" Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Fatherhood
Child
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" I don't mind America becoming a Third World country. The weather is better in the Third World than it is where I live in New Hampshire. And household help will be much cheaper. "
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" TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence. "
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" There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion. "
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" Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society. "
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" Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders. "
P. J. O'Rourke
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" Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely. "
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" Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit. "
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" You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going. "
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" Cars let us out of the barn and, while they were at it, destroyed the American nuclear family. As anyone who has had an American nuclear family can tell you, this was a relief to all concerned. "
P. J. O'Rourke
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" The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the '70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war. "
P. J. O'Rourke
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Divorce
War
" Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Soldiers
Some
Training
" If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas. "
P. J. O'Rourke
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Were
Process
" Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too. "
P. J. O'Rourke
People
You
Crazy
" There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Die
Women
Take
" When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Place
Person
Parking
" Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one presidential candidate from the stink of another. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Possible
Political
Discourse
" All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Bad
Change
Done
" China is trying to become America without democracy while America is trying to become France without cheese calories. "
P. J. O'Rourke
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America
Cheese
" All religions must be made child-proof. Our teachers' unions have done good work in this field, K through 12. Delaying first communions and bar mitzvahs until age 21 would be another positive step. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Done
Work
Step
" There are 1.3 billion people in China, and they all want a Buick. "
P. J. O'Rourke
China
Billion
Want
" Conservatives really don't believe in politics as the primary instrument of getting along in life and therefore don't tend to put their energy into it a way people left of center do. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Energy
Politics
People
" If government were a product, selling it would be illegal. "
P. J. O'Rourke
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Would
Selling
" 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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Years
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" Jack Abramoff is the world's best lobbyist - for the Federal Penitentiary System. "
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Jack
Best
Federal
" A penny will not buy a penny postcard or a penny whistle or a single piece of penny candy. It will not even, if you're managing the U.S. Mint, buy a penny. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Will
You
Mint
" 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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World
Job
Hope
" Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby. "
P. J. O'Rourke
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Bear
Baby
" Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How'd they get so rich? Because they're free. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Free
Got
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" Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope. "
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Like
Making
Fun
" Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Parents
Discipline
Parenting