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- Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for a horn and…
- Remember, your body needs 6 to 8 glasses of fluid daily. Straight up or on the rocks.
- Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse is not going to divorce…
- When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics.
- There's no telling what might have happened to our defense budget if Saddam Hussein hadn't invaded Kuwait that August and set everyone gearing up for…
- The real slums are another matter. The bad parts of Tondo are as bad as any place I've seen, ancient, filthy houses swarmed with the…
- I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners…
- In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that when…
- If we're going to improve the environment, the first thing we should do is duck the government. The second thing we should do is quit…
- Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of the old, the near old and those who hope or fear to grow…
- Farm policy, although it's complex, can be explained. What it can't be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car, no…
- Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellsprings of initiative and creativity.
- If I give up drinking, smoking, and fatty foods, I can add ten years to my life. Trouble is, I'll add it to the wrong…
- Think of what big governments have gotten up to in this century : not one, but two world wars, the gulag, the holocaust, aerial bombing…
- The Italians have had 2,000 years to fix up the Forum and just look at the place!
- Haitians weren't screwed-up, but everything political, intellectual, and material around them is.
- To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get…
- A firm, hearty handshake gives a good first impression, and you'll never be forgiven if you don't live up to it.
- The Russians could have some (warheads) aimed at Japan, so if we act up they can destroy our economy.
- I suspect the soviets never did want to use those bombs. The most Stalinist of Soviet hard-liners - Stalin, for example - must have realized…
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- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
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- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt