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This matter of two sides to every question is bad logic and bad practice: sometimes there are no sides sometimes there are a hundred.

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Mort Sahl
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: May 11
Actor
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Montreal
Quebec
Morton Lyon Sahl
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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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I used to go out with actresses and other female impersonators.
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I don't think crucifixion is the answer. I believe in the resurrection. I like that part of the story.
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A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.
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One thing about being narrow-minded: you'll never be lonely.
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Obama says his recreation consists of reading the Constitution... looking for a loophole.
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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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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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The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi.
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Obama said he went to Libya because of his conscience. Did anyone ever wrestle with his conscience and lose?
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There's so much Botox around now that you can't tell when a Jewish girl is angry!
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The New York Times is the official leak of the State Department.
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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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Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.
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We all know that America is the worst country in the world, except for all the others.
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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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