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" Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Gay
Marriage
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" The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich. "
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" I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped. "
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" 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. "
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" All business is capitalistic. You require capital for any sort of business endeavour. "
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" I understand Twitter has become popular among politicians. This technology allows them to stay in perpetual contact with their constituents. The electorate now has instant information about what politicians have been up to. "
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" Space has always been confusing to politics. "
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" I know quite a few fellow members of the news analysis and commentary business, and I have it from the highest-placed sources, on the record, that each and every one of our children is a genius. "
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" Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it. "
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" Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living. "
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" Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up. "
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" 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. "
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" My whole family can talk. They are all car salesmen. They are all funny. "
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" Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing hypocritical in his attempts to redistribute some of that wealth to himself. "
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" I'm really tired of virtue. "
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Really
Tired
" A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking. "
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" I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements. "
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Lot
" 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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" Philosophy was once considered science. "
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" I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him. "
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" When I board an airplane these days, all the middle-aged men are dressed like me - when I was an 8-year-old. They're in shorts and T-shirts. And it's not just on airplanes. It's in business offices, teachers' lounges, and churches. "
P. J. O'Rourke
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Me
" I am a student of stupidity. I am a political reporter. "
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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? "
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" I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it. "
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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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" There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is - certainly is one of them. But it's low on my list. "
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" Harvard is the home of American ideas. "
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" My life would have gone along perfectly well, politically speaking, if it hadn't been for girls. "
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" The baby boomers' politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle of that spectrum, but still, there's been both leftie silliness and right-wing silliness. "
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" The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews. "
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" Modern elites live in bubbles of liberal affluence like Ann Arbor, Brookline, the Upper West Side, Palo Alto, or Chevy Chase. These places used to have impoverished neighborhoods nearby, but the poor people got chased out by young singles living in group homes, hipsters, and urban homesteading gay couples. "
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