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" People love to be told what they know already. "

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" Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle murrain, and turning the Nile to blood and smiting the firstborn, give me a pass. And tell me when it's over. "

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" Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines. "

" The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth. "

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" Freedom is for fun. "

" We did not become libertarians because we are altruists. "

" War diminishes both civil and economic rights. "

" Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else. "

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