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I went back to bumming around New York, writing freelance stuff for Car & Driver and such.


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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.



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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.



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Mercedes Benz : A mechanical device that increases sexual arousal in women.



Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin.

Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin.



A firm, hearty handshake gives a good first impression, and you'll never be forgiven if you don't live up to it.

A firm, hearty handshake gives a good first impression, and you'll never be forgiven if you don't live up to it.



At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.

At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.



There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.

There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.



Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.



Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs. Splash! There goes Mark Foley!

Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs. Splash! There goes Mark Foley!



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Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race





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Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods.



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We have to believe in ourselves more. It's all the same thing: We need to release the guilt. We need to forgive. We need to drop all the bullshit we were taught.



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I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.



By beauty of course I mean truth, for the one involves the other; it is only the false in art which is ugly, and it is only the ugly that is universal.

By beauty of course I mean truth, for the one involves the other; it is only the false in art which is ugly, and it is only the ugly that is universal.




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