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Molly Ivins
Age: 62 †
Born: 1944
Born: August 30
Died: 2007
Died: January 31
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I think most of us become nicer as we get older, less judgmental, less full of certitude life tends to knock a few corners of us as we go through. Cancer, divorce, teenagers, and other plagues make us give up on expecting ourselves - or life - to be perfect, which is a real relief.
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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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Democracy requires a certain relish for confusion
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In city rooms and in the bars where newspeople drink, you can find out what's going on. You can't find it in the papers.
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The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.
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Texas is a fine place for men and dogs, but hell on women and horses.
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It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good.
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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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I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we tend to be very Texcentric.
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It's like, duh. Just when you thought there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between the two parties, the Republicans go and prove you're wrong.
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How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion.
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Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman
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The Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended.
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It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.
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Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.
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We often seem to be swimming through such a miasma of sexual violence - in advertising, television programming, heavy metal, rap, films, and worst of all, in the home - that even First Amendment absolutists sometimes daydream about how nice it would be to have government-as-nanny just outlaw all this effluent.
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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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And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.
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Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.
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Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.
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