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Molly Ivins Inspirational Quotes (80)

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So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.
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What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.
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Either we figure out how to keep corporate cash out of the political system or we lose the democracy.
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This is the man (Ronald Reagan) who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency
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We've had trickle down economics in the country for ten years now, and most of us aren't even damp yet.
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Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided me the time and experience and failures and triumphs and friends who helped me step into the shape that had been waiting for me all my life.
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The thing is this: You got to have fun while you're fightin' for freedom, 'cause you don't always win.
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During a recent panel on the numerous failures of American journalism, I proposed that almost all stories about government should begin: “Look out! They're about to smack you around again!
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Sometimes I think Texas exists as a reality check for those who might wander too far toward the precious.
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no one has ever accused Texas of being in the vanguard of social progress. This is the most macho state in the U.S. of A. By lore, legend, and fact, Texas is 'hell' on women and horses.
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The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.
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Of course, it has never paid much.
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Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.
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Conservatives are fond of pointing out there are problems in this world can't be solved by throwing money at them. There are even more that can't be solved by dropping bombs on them.
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It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good.
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Sit up, join up, get on line, get in touch, find out who's raising hell and join them. No use waiting on a bunch of wussy politicians.
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Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair’s-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly less awful than the other. But it does raise the question: Why bother?
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The Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended.
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...you could have knocked me over with Michael Huffington's brain.
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Democracy requires a certain relish for confusion
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Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.
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Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were afraid of being beaten, raped, or killed by men. She then asked a group of men why they felt threatened by women. They said they were afraid women would laugh at them.
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The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.
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Some days, I'd feel better with Punxsutawney Phil in the Oval Office - at least he doesn't lie about the weather.
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