The whole idea of government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.

P.J. ORourke
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  3. Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. - Horace Mann

  4. If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong. - Jasper Fforde

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  1. Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.

  2. Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

  3. The average IQ in America is–and this can be proven mathematically–average.

  4. People are all exactly alike. There's no such thing as a race and barely such a thing as an ethnic group. If we were dogs, we'd be the same breed. George Bush and an Australian Aborigine have fewer differences than a Lhasa apso and a...

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