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College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.

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The good thing about SUVs is they have storage.

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People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.

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A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall.

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Inside every Sancho Panza there's a Don Quixote struggling to get out.

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The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.

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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 nothing too.

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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

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I live in New Hampshire. We're in favor of global warming. Eleven hundred more feet of sea-level rises? I've got beachfront property. You tell us up there, 'By the end of the century, New York City could be underwater,' and we say, 'Your point is?'

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I'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works.

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Democrats hate success.

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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.

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Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.

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I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.

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All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see.

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I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived.

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The words 'Space Age' have a quaint, nostalgic tone - sitting on midcentury modern furniture watching 'The Jetsons.'

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Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins of Babylon and Egypt, shows nothing but ziggurats and pyramids of wasted taxpayer money, the TARP funds and shovel-ready stimulus programs of their day.

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Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.

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Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By and large, they're trying to do it as well as they can. Or at least as often as people in the private sector try to do as well as they can.

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I think the Baby Boom does have a tendency to get its nose in everything. The Greatest Generation had a better tendency to leave people alone. Of course, they also had a better tendency to hate everybody's guts.

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I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.

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The foundation of collectivism is simple: There should be no important economic differences among people. No one should be too rich.

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People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it's simply a measurement.

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The 18,000 NASA employees are full of galactic talents and abilities and are ready to accomplish whatever they're directed to do.

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I was never a Democrat. I went from Republican to Maoist and then back again.

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The one thing that's terrible about traveling for fun is writing about it.

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If we were to inspect ourselves or members of our family and our friends, we would see that we don't really have to go all the way overseas to be mystified - we can be mystified right at home.

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Politics won't allow for the truth.

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Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.

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I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked.

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Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.

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If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters.

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Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle murrain, and turning the Nile to blood and smiting the firstborn, give me a pass. And tell me when it's over.

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Harvard is the home of American ideas.

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

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