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I'm for capital punishment. You've got to execute people. How else are they going to learn?

Mort Sahl

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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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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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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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We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were.
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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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Obama is running again for spite.
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The New York Times is the official leak of the State Department.
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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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That feeling of hopelessness only serves your masters.
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I used to go out with actresses and other female impersonators.
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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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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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I don't believe in good people and bad people. I believe in the better parts of people.
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My whole life is a movie. It's just that there are no dissolves. I have to live every agonizing moment of it. My life needs editing.
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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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Obama said he went to Libya because of his conscience. Did anyone ever wrestle with his conscience and lose?
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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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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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I don't think fascism is dying for.
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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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