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Sit up, join up, get on line, get in touch, find out who's raising hell and join them. No use waiting on a bunch of wussy politicians.

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Molly Ivins
Age: 62 †
Born: 1944
Born: August 30
Died: 2007
Died: January 31
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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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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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Texas is a fine place for men and dogs, but hell on women and horses.
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I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we tend to be very Texcentric.
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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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Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.
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Reading Ehrenreich is good for the soul.
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It's like, duh. Just when you thought there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between the two parties, the Republicans go and prove you're wrong.
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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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It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good.
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One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.
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During a recent panel on the numerous failures of American journalism, I proposed that almost all stories about government should begin: “Look out! They're about to smack you around again!
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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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The Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended.
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I know vegetarians don't like to hear this, but God made an awful lot of land that's good for nothing but grazing.
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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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I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.
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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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What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.
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