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Molly Ivins
Age: 62 †
Born: 1944
Born: August 30
Died: 2007
Died: January 31
Columnist
Journalist
Writer
Monterey
California
Knocked
Michael
Brain

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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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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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And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.
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Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.
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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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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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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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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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You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.
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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 argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.
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The Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended.
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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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Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.
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Americans are not getting screwed by the Republican Party. They're getting screwed by the large corporations that bought and own the Republican Party.
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What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.
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How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion.
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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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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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