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A left-wing idiot is as dangerous as a right-wing idiot.
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DANIEL SUAREZ Most Republicans call the show 'The Left Wing.'
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Oh, hasn't he told you? The ones before. None of them last, you see. That's the whole point.
J.P. DELANEY When you are investing in J. P. Morgan,
BRAD HINTZ Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.
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J. P. Morgan. He was kind of a douche.
T. J. MILLER Overall the capital markets were not strong for the company [J. P. Morgan],
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But I know he loves me. I know he needs our games, that they answer some deep-seated hunger in him.
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I feel a thrill of excitement at this first tiny glimpse of self-revelation, of intimacy.
J.P. DELANEY
We're all connected now, I think as I send it off into cyberspace. Everyone and everything.
J.P. DELANEY Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
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THE INVISIBLE COMMITTEE We have been expropriated from our own language by television, from our songs by reality TV contests...
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The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.
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The greatest barrier to wealth creation is the denial of Cosmic Ordering.
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The river of knowledge has no depth.
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I wonder if anyone who needs a snappy song service can really appreciate the meaning of the cross.
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Stupid crowds are the greatest wealth of the crook politicians!
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DEYTH BANGER Open the fridge and put
My heart on a plate.
I'm just as you left
me, and I taste eve...
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The only secret of wealth creation is knowing how to use Cosmic Ordering.
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I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.
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In the beginning there was nothing, and then god created "me".
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MARTIN COTHRAN If you can accumulate wealth without the peoples input,then relocate to planet mars & experiment.
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CHRIS DALY Right-wing in Holland is to the Left of the Tories in England.
PIM FORTUYN Even the most successful will fall to the power of the creator of creation
JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.
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'Vanity Fair' is a left-wing rag.
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EMME KOZLOFF A slight premium to the market is about as far as the P/E multiple should go until management provid...
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Left wing, right wing, I am wingless and tired of trying to fly. Here comes the ground.
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Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
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It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
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P. J. O'ROURKE What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding de...
P. J. O'ROURKE There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the co...
P. J. O'ROURKE The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The ...
P. J. O'ROURKE A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitche...
P. J. O'ROURKE Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled...
P. J. O'ROURKE If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, Wo...
P. J. O'ROURKE You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don'...
P. J. O'ROURKE The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim...
P. J. O'ROURKE Northwest Ohio is flat. There isn't much up. The land is so flat that a child from Toledo is und...
P. J. O'ROURKE The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
P. J. O'ROURKE A fundamental American question is, 'What's the big idea?'
P. J. O'ROURKE Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the sche...
P. J. O'ROURKE Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
P. J. O'ROURKE If I were a congressman who had voted for the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, I'd claim it w...
P. J. O'ROURKE The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them...
P. J. O'ROURKE Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
P. J. O'ROURKE I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bl...
P. J. O'ROURKE Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway inste...
P. J. O'ROURKE Kids are disorganized.
P. J. O'ROURKE People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers th...
P. J. O'ROURKE Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.
P. J. O'ROURKE Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
J P DONLEAVY Inside every Sancho Panza there's a Don Quixote struggling to get out.
P. J. O'ROURKE Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino's box.
P. J. O'ROURKE In Hong Kong there is agglomeration beyond my fondest imaginings. The Kowloon district claims a popu...
P. J. O'ROURKE There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently ...
P. J. O'ROURKE Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. I...
P. J. O'ROURKE The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and ...
P. J. O'ROURKE Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one ...
P. J. O'ROURKE Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the Dist...
P. J. O'ROURKE It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with...
P. J. O'ROURKE I'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in h...
P. J. O'ROURKE Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.
P. J. O'ROURKE Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefull...
P. J. O'ROURKE I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a learning experience. Then again, I like to think ...
P. J. O'ROURKE The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display e...
P. J. O'ROURKE There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-...
P. J. O'ROURKE With Epcot Center the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today...
P. J. O'ROURKE When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are le...
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