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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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" No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house. "

P. J. O'Rourke

Health

Because

Lose

" A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall. "

" It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have... we always want more. "

Joyce Meyer

People

Always

" Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman. "

" Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus? Being there was not so fun. "

" Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective. "

" Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly. "

" War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed. "

" I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped. "

P. J. O'Rourke

Even

Never

" The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews. "

" The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff. "

" As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's. "

P. J. O'Rourke

Ray

Right

" One of the primary purposes of civilization - and certainly its primary strength - is the guarantee that family life can flourish in unity, peace, and order. "

" Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization. "

" The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life. "

" Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse? "

" One nice thing about making jokes is that you don't have to prove them. "

" War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans. "

" There are no military solutions - dialogue and diplomacy are the only guarantee of lasting peace. "

" Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. "

" I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory. "

" Affirmative action makes employers think, 'Black woman nuclear physicist? Hah! Probably let her into Harvard 'cause they were looking for a twofer. Bet she got C's in high school practical math. Give her a job in personnel.' "

" When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there. "

" The words 'Space Age' have a quaint, nostalgic tone - sitting on midcentury modern furniture watching 'The Jetsons.' "

" Every time I'm in Georgia, I eat a peach for peace. "

" At the end of the day, Wonder Woman is a peace seeker. But when fight arrives, she can fight. She's a warrior, and she enjoys the adrenaline of the fight. "

" Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers. "

" On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all. "

" After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States. "

" When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace. "