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Mort Sahl
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: May 11
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Morton Lyon Sahl
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A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.
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I used to go out with actresses and other female impersonators.
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If you were the only person left on the planet, I would have to attack you. That's my job.
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I watched Ken Burns' Civil War series on PBS. My favorite segment is when Bob Hope entertains the troops at Gettysburg.
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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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We all know that America is the worst country in the world, except for all the others.
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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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Obama is running again for spite.
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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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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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There's a danger our fiscal bankruptcy might overtake our moral bankruptcy.
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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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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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That feeling of hopelessness only serves your masters.
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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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We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were.
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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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I don't think crucifixion is the answer. I believe in the resurrection. I like that part of the story.
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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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