"The killjoys initiated automobile crash standards so rigorous that we can't buy a car that hasn't been dropped from the top of a phone pole with our whole family strapped inside."

Society, Safety, Humor, Family, Risk

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"Society has a herd psychology, so until we have more good shepherds we are lost."

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"I realize that they giggle and I actually laugh, that they show their cleavage and I have none to show, but just so you know, I am also a girl. I'm one of the three wise MEN. And it's gay to think that James Bond is hot."

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"The 'Wild West' is a good description of law enforcement in the desert southwest USA."

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"The world is "sick" with loneliness in spite of multitudes of people living in it."

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"Take responsibility for the city."

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"The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it."

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"No one cares how long you kept yourself virgin and how loyal you are, everyone is looking for a hole to play with."

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"No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin-because we were born to female creatures. Only by obeying the rules of the patriarchy can we be reborn through men. No wonder priests and ministers in skirts sprinkle imitation birth fluid over our heads, give us new names, and promise rebirth into everlasting life."

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"Racism hurts everyone, including racists themselves."

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"If you fail to report within the next 12 hours. you will be terminated. If you attack any humans, you will be terminated. If you attempt to remove the tracking device, you will be terminated. We look forward to working with you."

Kiersten White, American Author

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"The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop."

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"By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire."

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"Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy."

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