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Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

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Molly Ivins
Age: 62 †
Born: 1944
Born: August 30
Died: 2007
Died: January 31
Columnist
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Monterey
California
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Oddities
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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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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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I believe all Southern liberals come from the same starting point--race. Once you figure out they are lying to you about race, you start to question everything.
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Mostly, Texas women are tough in some very fundamental ways. Not unfeminine, nor necessarily unladylike, just tough!
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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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Whenever you hear a politician carry on about what a mess the schools are, be aware that you are looking at the culprit.
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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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This is the man (Ronald Reagan) who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency
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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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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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Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.
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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 don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.
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The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.
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Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided me the time and experience and failures and triumphs and friends who helped me step into the shape that had been waiting for me all my life.
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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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...you could have knocked me over with Michael Huffington's brain.
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You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.
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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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Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.
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