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The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.
— 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
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Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.
— P. J. O'Rourke
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Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats.
— P. J. O'Rourke
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
— P. J. O'Rourke
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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
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