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" President Bush said that if illegal immigrants want citizenship, they'd have to do three things: pay taxes, hold meaningful jobs, and learn English. Bush doesn't meet those qualifications. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Immigrants
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" On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all. "
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" There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives. "
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" Global warming is a fact. Now it's up to liberals to make it a reality. Hence there is crucial importance in preventing powerful, greedy free market forces from getting in the way of worsening storms and rising sea levels. The Kyoto Accord is a good first step. "
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" Democrats hate stay-at-home spouses, no matter what gender or gender preference. "
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" Everybody is xenophobic to an extent. "
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" Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely. "
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" When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. "
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" We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite. "
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" I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid. "
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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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" The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it. "
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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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" All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done. "
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" My ignorance is widespread. "
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" Art Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering. "
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" The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen. "
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" 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. "
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" Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby. "
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" People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it's simply a measurement. "
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" There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon. "
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" Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum. "
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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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" 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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