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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.

Mort Sahl

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Mort Sahl
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: May 11
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Morton Lyon Sahl
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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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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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Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.
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