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" When I was fifteen, I dreamed of living in the big city, as many a young person does if he is artistic and sensitive. By 'artistic and sensitive' I mean short, skinny, unkissed, bad at sports, and carrying a C average in high school. "

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" Who, other than a crazy person, does anything besides hang up on a robo-call? Any call, any person, anywhere, under any circumstances. "

P. J. O'Rourke

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" Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world. "

" You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages. "

" Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less. "

P. J. O'Rourke

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Nothing

" If we were to inspect ourselves or members of our family and our friends, we would see that we don't really have to go all the way overseas to be mystified - we can be mystified right at home. "

" Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing hypocritical in his attempts to redistribute some of that wealth to himself. "

" The subculture of felons is in great vogue among adolescents. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and so forth allow us Republicans to say to America's young people, 'We be thugs.' The GOP may capture the youth vote at last. "

" The world is being run by irresponsible spoiled brats. "

" The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb. "

" Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do. "

" There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner. "

" Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit. "

" Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods. "

" Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper. "

" The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget. "

" Philosophy was once considered science. "

" The one thing that's terrible about traveling for fun is writing about it. "

" I read good. I was an English major. "

" Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English. "

" My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and both of us are - you come from the kidding kind of Irish family. "

" Until I carried my wife off to New Hampshire, she defined wilderness as the Bronx. "

" Arguing, in the sense of attempting to convince others, has gone out of fashion with conservatives. "

" I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak. "

" What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention. "

" Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue. "

" Even Jimmy Carter can't be wrong all the time. "

" 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. "

" The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows. "

" Satire doesn't effect change. "

" The average IQ in America is - and this can be proven mathematically - average. "

P. J. O'Rourke

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Average