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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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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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That feeling of hopelessness only serves your masters.
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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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I never met a man I didn't like until I met Will Rogers.
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Every time the Russians throw an American in jail, the Committee throws an American in jail to get even.
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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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I found people looked better when they laughed
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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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You haven't lived until you've died in California
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One thing about being narrow-minded: you'll never be lonely.
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Women want their men to be cops. They want you to punish them and tell them what the limits are. The only thing that women hate worse from a man than being slapped is when you get on your knees and say you're sorry.
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Most people past college age are not atheists. It's too hard to be in society, for one thing. Because you don't get any days off. And if you're an agnostic you don't know whether you get them off or not.
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Everything I tell you is true, but this is factual.
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I used to go out with actresses and other female impersonators.
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Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.
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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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There's so much Botox around now that you can't tell when a Jewish girl is angry!
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Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.
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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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A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.
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