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- You can always reason with a German. You can always reason with a barnyard animal, too, for all the good it does.
- Collectivism doesn't work because it's based on a faulty economic premise. There is no such thing as a person's "fair share" of wealth. The gross…
- During the mid-1980s dairy farmers decided there was too much cheap milk at the supermarket. So the government bought and slaughtered 1.6 million dairy cows.…
- Intelligence collection has been given an additional bureaucracy to correct the problems created by too much bureaucracy in intelligence collection.
- Health care is too expensive, so the Clinton administration is putting a high-powered coporate lawyer - Hillary - in charge of making it cheaper. (This…
- So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else available.…
- Just as some things are too strange for fiction, others are too true for journalism.
- Generally it's not a good idea to wear Banana Republic - type khaki journalist clothes in a war zone. You might look too much like…
- The day was warm and clear. Kids were playing soccer in the parking lots and women were sunning their babies and having their tea all…
- The wonder is that communism lasted so long. But then again, modern poetry lasted a long time, too.
- Rich white Protestant men have held on to some measure of power in America almost solely by getting women, blacks, and other disadvantaged groups to…
- 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…
- 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…
- The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often…
- Guns are always the best method for a private suicide. They are more stylish looking than single-edged razor blades and natural gas has got so…
- The wise traveler [to Beirut] will pack shirts or blouses with ample breast pockets. Reaching inside a jacket for your passport looks too much like…
- In Toledo, people grow out. Out to the suburbs. Out to the parts of America where the economy is more vigorous. And all too often,…
- There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
- 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…
- Gun violence has cost us too many political leaders, and hardly ever the worst ones.
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- Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly… — Isaac Asimov