Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are imp…

P. J. O'Rourke
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy. ✨ P.J. O'Rourke (2015). Thrown Under the Omnibus, p.256, Atlantic Books Ltd
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