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" The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Television
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" I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him. "
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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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" 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. "
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" If I were a congressman who had voted for the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, I'd claim it was forced on our country by a sinister international organization. "
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" The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living. "
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" Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English. "
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" Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad? "
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" The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative. "
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" I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning. "
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" One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army. "
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" The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise. "
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" Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative. "
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" The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb. "
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" The one thing that's terrible about traveling for fun is writing about it. "
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" Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants. "
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" Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby. "
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" What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt. "
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" I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself. "
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" I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics. "
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" By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire. "
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" The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway. "
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