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" I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Think
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" Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby. "
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" Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in Guangdong province have your job? "
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" Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir. "
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" War expands government powers. The trouble is that, when the war goes away, the government powers do not. "
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" The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee. "
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" Inside every Sancho Panza there's a Don Quixote struggling to get out. "
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" Stupid is a great force in human affairs. "
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" I'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works. "
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" Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude. "
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" I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser. On his TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block... pretty funny. "
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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. "
P. J. O'Rourke
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" There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages. "
P. J. O'Rourke
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Growth
" Californians are people who insist on growing their own vegetables, but they won't dig up the pretty lawn, won't plant anything for fear of getting dirty, and they use fragrant bath salts from The Body Shop instead of smelly compost. "
P. J. O'Rourke
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" We did not become libertarians because we are altruists. "
P. J. O'Rourke
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" There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible. "
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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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Peace
Truth
" Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life. "
P. J. O'Rourke
People
Life
Soccer
" I blame feminism and Facebook for the death of the American automobile. I'm a Republican, so I blame everything on feminism - or commies. "
P. J. O'Rourke
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" Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life. "
P. J. O'Rourke
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" The people who despise America are the editors of the 'New Statesman.' Their green-card applications must have been turned down. "
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" If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult. "
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" I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the violence surrounding the Civil Rights Movement. "
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" Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely. "
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" Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. "
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Your
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" What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text. "
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" In midlife, we're as dumb as we get. "
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Dumb
" You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages. "
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Nations
Never
" Harvard is the home of American ideas. "
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Ideas
Home
American
" A person has got to balance work and life and family in order to be a balanced person. "
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" Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate. "
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