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" 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. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Small
House
Everything
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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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" Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification. "
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" Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising. "
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" Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure. "
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" If you want to join the Republican party, they have to let you in. There's nothing they can do about it. I mean, if Republicans will take Al D'Amato, they'll take anybody. "
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" There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon. "
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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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" When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side. "
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" On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all. "
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" The only advantage to being a middle-aged man is that when you put on a jacket and tie, you're the Scary Dad. Never mind that no one has had an actually scary dad since 1966. The visceral fear remains. "
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" Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same. "
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" Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue. "
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" In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.' "
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" You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be. "
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" The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad. "
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" The most futuristic aspect of the House of the Future was that it was made almost entirely of plastic. "
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