American - Comedian | November 14, 1947 -
Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.
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We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has to do with urban sprawl. What began as pleasure ends up in necessity, as so many things do.
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Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.
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The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative.
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A fundamental American question is, 'What's the big idea?'
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There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
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Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.
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All business is capitalistic. You require capital for any sort of business endeavour.
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Harvard is the home of American ideas.
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Cars let us out of the barn and, while they were at it, destroyed the American nuclear family. As anyone who has had an American nuclear family can tell you, this was a relief to all concerned.
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