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P. J. O'Rourke

"Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue."

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"Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent."

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