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Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
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Liberals have invented whole college majors - psychology, sociology and women's studies - to prove that nothing is anybody's fault.
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In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank, thwarted in ambition, aging gracelessly, mad at the cosmos, and ashamed of his own jejune ideals. He is nevertheless very dear to me.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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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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Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.
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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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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite.
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Hunter S. Thompson and I are old friends, but what we do is so different. There are surface similarities that really have to do with us being frustrated poets.
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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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The Tea Party has definitely increased political involvement, not only among Tea Party members but among people who oppose the Tea Party members. It's been a general stimulus.
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People love to be told what they know already.
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Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
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Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
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A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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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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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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Harvard is the home of American ideas.
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