American - Comedian | November 14, 1947 -
Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.
P. J. O'Rourke
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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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I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.
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As a nation, Kuwait has been, arguably, free of freedom itself. Claimed in turn by Constantinople, Riyadh, and Baghdad, Kuwait has survived by playing Turks off Persians, Arabs off one another, and the English off everyone.
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Until I carried my wife off to New Hampshire, she defined wilderness as the Bronx.
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There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.
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Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
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Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
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Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.
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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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The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
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Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.
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