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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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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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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 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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Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.
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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 about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.
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Reading Ehrenreich is good for the soul.
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Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.
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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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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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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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I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.
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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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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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I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.
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What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.
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Listen to the people who are talking about how to fix what's wrong, not the ones who just work people into a snit over the problems. Listen to the people who have ideas about how to fix things, not the ones who just blame others.
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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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