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- Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your…
- Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is…
- The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or…
- Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.
- Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him…
- Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
- There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.
- There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.
- You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
- The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the…
- 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…
- 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…
- The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
- The good thing about SUVs is they have storage.
- I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.
- My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.
- Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy.
- Something that confirms all fears and many conspiracy theories about government is finding out what our elected representatives would put into law if they could.
- There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the…
- What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and…
- Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear…
- Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists, and the rest…
- The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
- I understand Twitter has become popular among politicians. This technology allows them to stay in perpetual contact with their constituents. The electorate now has instant…
- Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their…
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- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
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- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not… — Kevyn Aucoin
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little… — Frank Abagnale
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong