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Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

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Molly Ivins
Age: 62 †
Born: 1944
Born: August 30
Died: 2007
Died: January 31
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I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.
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I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.
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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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It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good.
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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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You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.
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As for George Bush of Kennebunkport, Maine- personally I think he's further evidence that the Great Scriptwriter in the Sky has an overdeveloped sense of irony.
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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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I believe all Southern liberals come from the same starting point--race. Once you figure out they are lying to you about race, you start to question everything.
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Of course, it has never paid much.
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As I have pointed out time and again, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to send little kids to school than it is to let them grow up into young thugs who have to be sent to prison, not to mention the savings in the wear and tear on the nerves, property, and safety of the rest of the citizenry.
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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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Although a life-long fashion dropout, I have absorbed enough by reading Harper's Bazaar while waiting at the dentist's to have grasped that the purpose of fashion is to make A Statement. My own modest Statement, discerned by true cognoscenti, is, Woman Who Wears Clothes So She Won't Be Naked.
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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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What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.
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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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Calling George Bush shallow is like calling a dwarf short.
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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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Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.
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Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse.
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