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" Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Think
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" Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles. "
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" The average IQ in America is - and this can be proven mathematically - average. "
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" The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin. "
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" Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer. "
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" There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion. "
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" Rahm Emanuel is, we are almost certain, a vampire. "
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" I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling. "
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" People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans. "
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" Opinions of language are as interesting as opinions of arithmetic. "
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" I'm a political conservative. "
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" America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being 'hegemonistic', of engaging in 'unilateralism', of behaving as if we're the only nation on earth that counts. We are. "
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" There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon. "
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" The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids. "
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" There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not a reserve currency, and scoreless sports ties are boring. "
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" When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place. "
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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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" No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are. "
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" My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and both of us are - you come from the kidding kind of Irish family. "
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" Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers. "
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" We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this. "
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" To blame the existence of al Qaeda on poverty like Egypt's is a slur on the poor. "
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" America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God. "
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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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" I'm a rather decisive type. "
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" Inside every Sancho Panza there's a Don Quixote struggling to get out. "
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" The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person. "
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" 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. "
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" What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and grand. "
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