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Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. when you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.

-P. J. O'Rourke

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Feeling Good About Government Is Like Looking

P. J. O'Rourke

Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. when you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.

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Everybody really knows what to do to have his life filled with joy. what is it? quit hating people; start loving them. quit being mad at people; start liking them. quit doing wrong; quit being filled with fear. quit thinking about yourself and go out and do something for other people. everybody knows what you have to do to be happy. but the wisdom of the test lies in the final words: "if ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them."

I cleaned up. i quit drinking, i quit doing drugs, i quit stealing, i quit breaking into houses, i tried to quit being a bad human being. i developed a conscience later in life than many. i call it the lost-time-regained dynamic.

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The left wants you to believe that true morality is defined by how much money you give the government, how much money you pay the government, how much money the government gets from you, because only the government does good stuff, only the government does good works, only the government cares about people. it's bogus.

Even happiness itself may become habitual. there is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side. dr. johnson has said that the habit of looking at the best side of a thing is worth more to a man than a thousand pounds a year. and we possess the power, to a great extent, of so exercising the will as to direct the thoughts upon objects calculated to yield happiness and improvement rather than their opposites.

A lot of times people get to a certain age and they quit. i always felt sorry for the frank capras, the billy wilders, directors like that, because they quit in their sixties. why would you quit? think of the great work they could've done in their sixties, seventies, and on up.

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