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Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.

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Molly Ivins
Age: 62 †
Born: 1944
Born: August 30
Died: 2007
Died: January 31
Columnist
Journalist
Writer
Monterey
California
Government
Think
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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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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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We often seem to be swimming through such a miasma of sexual violence - in advertising, television programming, heavy metal, rap, films, and worst of all, in the home - that even First Amendment absolutists sometimes daydream about how nice it would be to have government-as-nanny just outlaw all this effluent.
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Every two years, one of the most hotly contested elections in Texas is the poll taken among members of the capitol press corps to determine who are actually the ten stupidest members of the Legislature. Two years ago, there were thirty-seven official nominees and several write-ins.
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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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It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good.
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I think most of us become nicer as we get older, less judgmental, less full of certitude life tends to knock a few corners of us as we go through. Cancer, divorce, teenagers, and other plagues make us give up on expecting ourselves - or life - to be perfect, which is a real relief.
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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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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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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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Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.
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Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.
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If you ever get to the place where injustice doesn't bother you, you're dead.
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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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I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.
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My friend Mercedes Pena made me get in touch with my emotions just before I had a breast cut off. Just as I suspected, they were awful. How do you Latinas do this all the time in touch with your emotions? I asked her. That's why we take siestas, she replied.
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Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse.
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You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.
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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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