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The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff.
— P. J. O'Rourke
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Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item, the Internet, a few rudiments is all anyone cares to have.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Tags: judge, america, internet, knowledge
Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Tags: extent, everybody
Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Tags: america, world, power, hate
Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Tags: had, american, impact, life
Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Tags: things, understand, long, people
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