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- There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.
- Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
- I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
- 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,…
- Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to pursue our own…
- I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand.
- As a longtime former resident of 15 years in Washington, I wish that everybody would stay off the Mall with their political cause so that…
- No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy…
- We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.
- 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…
- The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor…
- Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and…
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