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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.

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TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence.

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The idea of a world where all people are alike - in wealth or in anything else - is a fantasy for the stupid.

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Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered.

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The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.

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There is only one thing that gives me hope as a Republican, and that is the Democrats. It's going to be hard to do a worse job running American than the Republicans have, but if anybody can do it, it's the Democrats.

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Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists, and the rest of the altruistic scum of the earth. Why do these people want to feel good? They want to feel good in order to convince themselves that they are good.

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We did not become libertarians because we are altruists.

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People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.

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Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Comedian

Born: November 14th, 1947

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