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The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail.

From P. J. O'Rourke

Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.

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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.

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Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.

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Never wear anything that panics the cat.

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Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society.

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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.

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Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.

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In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank, thwarted in ambition, aging gracelessly, mad at the cosmos, and ashamed of his own jejune ideals. He is nevertheless very dear to me.

From P. J. O'Rourke

Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item, the Internet, a few rudiments is all anyone cares to have.

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