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Freedom of speech is a two way street, man. You have the right to say whatever you want and the Boss has a right to tell the police to arrest you.

Lenny Bruce

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Lenny Bruce
Age: 40 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 1966
Died: August 3
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You got to pay your dues to get the joke. Besides, laughter is cheap and very portable. If there's a pogrom, or they're blaming you for the plague, nothing is easier to pack than a sense of humor.
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Once you sleep on feathers you can't go back to sleeping on the floor.
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When you're eight years old, nothing is any of your business.
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There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.
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If something about the human body disgusts you, the fault lies with the manufacturer.
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Darwin's theory is as dead as he is. Everyone is surviving, fit or not. Years ago, any kid dumb enough to chase a shiny object down a well was dead, and out of the gene pool. Now they got the technology and medicine to save the fool so he can breed more open mouth breathers.
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There's always a down side with any freedom. It's not just homosexual freedom, but any sexual freedom comes at a price, and that is usually art.
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Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.
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Every group, every system has a set of values and morals and when you get outside those, then the alarms ring. I was politically incorrect to 95% of the country luckily my 5% had the bread to come see me.
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Communism is just one big telephone company.
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I would become a priest or a rabbi or a monk or whatever the hell was necessary to perform miracles such as taking money from someone else's pocket and putting it into mine, still remaining within the confines of the law.
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Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
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Children ought to watch pornographic movies: it's healthier than learning about sex from Hollywood.
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The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
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What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.
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There is only what is and that's it. What should be is a dirty lie.
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Let me tell you the truth: The truth is what is. And what should be is a fantasy a terrible, terrible lie that someone gave the people long ago.
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