Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives,…

P. J. O'Rourke
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Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is just operating on a smaller scale and lacks the advantage of having made enormous soft-money campaign contributions to political candidates. ✨ P. J. O'Rourke (2015). Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader, p.722, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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