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We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were.

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Mort Sahl
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: May 11
Actor
Comedian
Journalist
Montreal
Quebec
Morton Lyon Sahl
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Nixon's the kind of guy that if you were drowning fifty feet off shore, he'd throw you a thirty foot rope. Then Kissinger would go on TV the next night and say that the President had met you more than half-way.
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Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.
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I don't think fascism is dying for.
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There are Russian spies here now. And if we're lucky, they'll steal some of our secrets and they'll be two years behind.
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If someone were to ask me for a short cut to sensuality, I would suggest he go shopping for a used 427 Shelby-Cobra. But it is only fair to warn you that of the 300 guys who switched to them in 1966, only two went back to women.
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Will Rogers…used to come out with a newspaper and pretend he was a yokel criticizing the intellectuals who ran the government. I come out with a newspaper and pretend I’m an intellectual making fun of the yokels running the government.
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Obama is running again for spite.
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A Yuppie is someone who believes it's courageous to eat in a restaurant that hasn't been reviewed yet.
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There were four million people in the American Colonies and we had Jefferson and Franklin. Now we have over 200 million and the two top guys are Clinton and Dole. What can you draw from this? Darwin was wrong.
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Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.
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I don't believe in good people and bad people. I believe in the better parts of people.
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The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi.
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If anybody comes up to you and says, My kid is a conservative - why is that? you say, Remember in the 60′s when we told you if you kept using drugs your kids would be mutants?
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Remember that no matter how selfish, how cruel, how unfeeling you have been today, every time you take a breath, you make a flower happy.
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In the forties, to get a girl you had to be a GI or a jock. In the fifties, to get a girl you had to be Jewish. In the sixties, to get a girl you had to be black. In the seventies, to get a girl you've got to be a girl.
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