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George Carlin
Age: 71 †
Born: 1937
Born: May 12
Died: 2008
Died: June 22
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George Denis Patrick Carlin
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The future will soon be a thing of the past.
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The next time a prostitute solicits your business, ask for the clergyman's rate.
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We now buy watches primarily for their looks, price, or additional functions. The fact that they tell time seems lost.
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I have lots of ideas. Trouble is, most of them suck.
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I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.
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Military cemeteries around the world are packed with brainwashed dead soldiers who were convinced God was on their side. America prays for God to destroy our enemies. Our enemies pray for God to destroy us. Somebody's gonna be disappointed! Somebody's wasting their time! Could it be.. everyone?
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Environmentalists changed the word jungle to rain forest, because no one would give them money to save a jungle. Same with swamps and wetlands.
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Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.
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Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time.
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My mother and her plans for my future. She had it all worked out. I would attend a nice college, then get a job in advertising. You'll be one of those smart-looking fellows in their Madison Avenue suits. And I rebelled against [my mother] and her values and her plans for my future at every opportunity.
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By the age of six or seven, I was already doing voices and faces, making my friends and my mother laugh.
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Sometimes a fireman will go to great strenuous lengths to save a raccoon that's stuck in a drainpipe and then go out on the weekend and kill several of them for amusement.
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