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" 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
Country
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" The Tea Party has definitely increased political involvement, not only among Tea Party members but among people who oppose the Tea Party members. It's been a general stimulus. "
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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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" Rich people don't like to be in the military. The shoes are ugly and the uniforms itch. Rich people don't go in much for revolution or terrorism, either. "
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" The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind. "
P. J. O'Rourke
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" The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen. "
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" When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money. "
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Money
Something
" 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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" We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting. "
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Who
Songs
" 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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Small
House
Everything
" Until I carried my wife off to New Hampshire, she defined wilderness as the Bronx. "
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Wilderness
Until
" 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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Big
Thoughts
" I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning. "
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Religion
Experience
Good
" I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Past
Grace
History
" Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such an excellent banjo player that you almost don't wish you had a pair of wire cutters. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Singing
You
Wish
" Moviemakers are rewarded with tax write-offs if, when seeking a location that looks like America, they seek it in America. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Location
America
Like
" Regulation creates a moral hazard. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Hazard
Regulation
Moral
" Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Positive
Health
Education
" Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Law
Rule Of Law
Ignorance
" Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland. "
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Sand
Time
Size
" Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus? Being there was not so fun. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Union
Being There
Fall
" America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Purpose
America
Education
" The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Get
You
Two
" People love to be told what they know already. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Know
People
Love
" Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Economics
Mine
Obsession
" If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas. "
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Around
Were
Process
" Ending wars is very simple if you surrender. "
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Simple
You
Surrender
" There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Die
Women
Take
" I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Experience
Think
Stupid
" I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand. "
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Early
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" Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse. "
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Mean
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