The sport of skiing consists of wearing three thousand dollars worth of clothes and equipment and driving two … - P. J. O'Rourke

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Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.

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The sport of skiing consists of wearing three thousand dollars worth of clothes and equipment and driving two hundred miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and get drunk.

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