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Reading Ehrenreich is good for the soul.
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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The advantage of being able to identify sin is that you can go out and do it, and enjoy it.
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Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.
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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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Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left there's nothing you can do about being born liberal - fish gotta swim and hearts gotta bleed.
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Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.
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He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes.
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I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.
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I know: Guns Don't Kill People. But I suspect that they have something to do with it. If you point your finger at someone and say, Bang, bang, you're dead, not much actually happens.
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Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.
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When Michael Jackson, a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich, white woman, married Elvis Presley's daughter the Scientologist. Makes you proud to be an American, dudn't it?
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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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I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.
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It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good.
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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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Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.
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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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The Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended.
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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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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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