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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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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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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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The Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended.
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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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Of course, it has never paid much.
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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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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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Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.
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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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He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes.
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Calling George Bush shallow is like calling a dwarf short.
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Conservatives have been mad at the Supreme Court since it decided to desegregate the schools in 1954 and seen fit to blame the federal bench for everything that has happened since then that they don't like.
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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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I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
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Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.
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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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Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.
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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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