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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn't matter.
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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.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon.
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Lyndon Johnson faced some clear moral issues.
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Disney's Tomorrowland is deeply, thoroughly, almost furiously unimaginative.
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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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What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and grand.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
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Man developed in Africa. He has not continued to do so there.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
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No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
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Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.
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I am a student of stupidity. I am a political reporter.
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Never wear anything that panics the cat.
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Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.
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Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.
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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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Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
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