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The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.

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Molly Ivins
Age: 62 †
Born: 1944
Born: August 30
Died: 2007
Died: January 31
Columnist
Journalist
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Monterey
California
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I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.
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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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Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.
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Whenever you hear a politician carry on about what a mess the schools are, be aware that you are looking at the culprit.
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If you ever get to the place where injustice doesn't bother you, you're dead.
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You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.
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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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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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Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.
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The advantage of being able to identify sin is that you can go out and do it, and enjoy it.
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Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.
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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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I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.
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Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.
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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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Nice is a pallid virtue. Not like honesty or courage or perseverance. On the other hand, in a nation notably lacking in civility, there is much to be said for nice.
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Mostly, Texas women are tough in some very fundamental ways. Not unfeminine, nor necessarily unladylike, just tough!
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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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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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Calling George Bush shallow is like calling a dwarf short.
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