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He who trades his identity for money will one day wind up with neither.

Jim Goad

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Jim Goad
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 12
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I didn't see much besides Melbourne and a quick trip down to the Twelve Apostles, but all the Aussies I encountered were good-spirited and had a fine sense of humor.
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I was exposed to violence while I was still in the womb - my father punched my mother in the stomach while she was pregnant with me.
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The leftist drive for control is insatiable.
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I prefer for a woman's most private of areas to have as much hair as Carlos Santana's entire band, head to toe, circa 1972.
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I believe human sexuality is one of the most ridiculous aspects of being a human, and here I was, facing publications whose prevailing editorial slant sought to portray our basic rutting instincts as something ennobling and empowering, to depict women who were fundamentally whores and predominantly unstable as sex workers and god
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The idea of karma reeks of primitive religious superstition, so I don't place a lot of stock in it.
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Governments throughout the English-speaking sphere are creating and then ratcheting the torque on hate-speech laws with frightening eagerness.
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