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" There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Die
Women
Take
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" War expands government powers. The trouble is that, when the war goes away, the government powers do not. "
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" My life would have gone along perfectly well, politically speaking, if it hadn't been for girls. "
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" The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics. "
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" For decades in America, there has been an effort to ensure that the rights of those who are not sane are the same as the rights of those who are. "
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" There is only one thing that gives me hope as a Republican, and that is the Democrats. It's going to be hard to do a worse job running American than the Republicans have, but if anybody can do it, it's the Democrats. "
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" Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient. "
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" The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay. "
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" You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate. "
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You
Defeat
" Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye. "
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" Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure. "
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Best
" There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon. "
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" Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present. "
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You
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" Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another. "
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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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Poverty
Blame
" 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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" Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. "
P. J. O'Rourke
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Ignorance
" Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God's grace. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Death
Grace
God
" The killjoys initiated automobile crash standards so rigorous that we can't buy a car that hasn't been dropped from the top of a phone pole with our whole family strapped inside. "
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Family
Standards
Top
" Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading. "
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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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" Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines. "
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" Fortunately, I'm married to someone who's a pretty excellent parent! "
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Pretty
" In the Soviet Union, no industry went under until they all did. "
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" The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb. "
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" I'm a political conservative. "
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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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" Freedom is for fun. "
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" To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal. "
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Look
" I was never a Democrat. I went from Republican to Maoist and then back again. "
P. J. O'Rourke
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" It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video. "
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