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He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes.
Molly Ivins
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Molly Ivins
Age: 62 †
Born: 1944
Born: August 30
Died: 2007
Died: January 31
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Monterey
California
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What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.
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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'm sorry that government involves filling out a lot of forms. ... I'm sorry myself that we're not still on the frontier, where we could all tote guns, shoot anything that moved and spit to our hearts' content. But we live in a diverse and crowded country, and with civilization comes regulation.
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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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The advantage of being able to identify sin is that you can go out and do it, and enjoy it.
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Texas is a fine place for men and dogs, but hell on women and horses.
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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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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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I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.
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Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.
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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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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 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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Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.
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Calling George Bush shallow is like calling a dwarf short.
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The Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended.
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...you could have knocked me over with Michael Huffington's brain.
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Reading Ehrenreich is good for the soul.
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I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.
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You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.
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