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Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming. (P. J. O'Rourke)
Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices. View quote
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The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words. View quote
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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present. View quote
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There is a fine line in the Third World between half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe and half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe so they can throw you in jail. View quote
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The Italians have had two thousand years to fix up the Forum and just look at the place. View quote
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We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans. View quote
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War will exist as long as there's a food chain. View quote
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I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now. View quote
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Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient. View quote
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You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective. (P. J. O'Rourke)
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. View quote
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I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it. View quote
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In Japan people drive on the left. In China people drive on the right. In Vietnam it doesn't matter. View quote
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Of course, the humans in Haiti have hope. They hope to leave. View quote
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Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union. View quote
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I am no stranger to loud noise. I've been to a Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels concert. I once dated a woman with two kids. View quote
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A charity ball is like a dance except it's tax deductible. View quote
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A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too. View quote
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America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased. View quote
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Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. (P. J. O'Rourke)
Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope. View quote
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Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy. View quote
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner. View quote
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You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going. View quote
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