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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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He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes.
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You could probably prove, by judicious use of logarithms and congruent triangles, that real life is a lot more like soap opera than most people will admit.
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It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.
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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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So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.
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I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.
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I used to go on college campuses 25 years ago and announce I was a feminist, and people thought it meant I believed in free love and was available for a quick hop in the sack. ... Now I go on college campuses and say I'm a feminist, and half of them think it means I'm a lesbian. How'd we get from there to here without passing Go?
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This is the man (Ronald Reagan) who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency
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On a personal note: I have contracted an outstanding case of breast cancer, from which I intend to recover. I don't need get-well cards, but I would like the beloved women readers to do something for me: Go. Get. The. Damn. Mammogram. Done.
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Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.
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The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.
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Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death with some frequency. And they fight in bars all the time.
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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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no one has ever accused Texas of being in the vanguard of social progress. This is the most macho state in the U.S. of A. By lore, legend, and fact, Texas is 'hell' on women and horses.
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The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.
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It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good.
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Calling George Bush shallow is like calling a dwarf short.
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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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Texas is a fine place for men and dogs, but hell on women and horses.
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