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" When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me. "
P. J. O'Rourke
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Shouting
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" Every new car, you open the door, and you look at all those internal mellifluous swoopy bits, and they have no meaning. "
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" The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people. "
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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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" Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir. "
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" Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros. "
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" The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns. "
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" I've always saved. I believe in keeping money back for a rainy day and living within my means. I don't buy expensive clothes; I have a 10-year-old car I'm hoping to replace when a big job comes in. I suppose when we do go on family holidays, I am quite happy to spend when we are there. "
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" I don't understand anything about America's culture. "
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Anything
America
" If a neighbor is killed in a car accident, do you sell your car and stop driving? "
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" When I was a kid I got busted for throwing a rock through a car window and egging a house on halloween. "
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" The average IQ in America is - and this can be proven mathematically - average. "
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" How many times have you been on the freeway and had someone fly by you at 100 mph then end up two cars ahead of you at the off ramp? What's the point? "
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" In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.' "
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Strangers
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" I grew up listening to my dad, a miner who rose through the ranks to be the mine superintendent in Coalwood, W.V. , yelling orders into his black company phone. He wanted to get coal out of the ground and into coal cars and on its way to steel mills. "
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" If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult. "
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" Ending wars is very simple if you surrender. "
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" When I was four, I just wanted to drive, I collected toy cars. Where does that sort of thing come from? In hindsight you go, 'Oh, liked it because of this.' Maybe it's just the wheel. "
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" There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election. "
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" I've only been to New Zealand once, about 1989. It was incredibly beautiful, kind of like the ideal of where I live in New England - all that and then some - but I can't say I was there long enough to get any very clear idea. "
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