You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - … - P. J. O'Rourke

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I like to think I opened doors for other women, although that wasn't my original intention.

P. J. O'Rourke

You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective.

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Not being a liberal, I have very little grasp of things that I know nothing about.

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There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself.

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