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Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.

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Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.

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My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow... he wasn't evil or anything, but he was worthless.

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

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I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one.

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Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.

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There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.

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Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.

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Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such an excellent banjo player that you almost don't wish you had a pair of wire cutters.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Comedian

Born: November 14th, 1947

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