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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.

Mort Sahl

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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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One thing about being narrow-minded: you'll never be lonely.
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If you can't join them, beat them.
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That feeling of hopelessness only serves your masters.
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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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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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Obama says his recreation consists of reading the Constitution... looking for a loophole.
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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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Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.
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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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A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.
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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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I don't think crucifixion is the answer. I believe in the resurrection. I like that part of the story.
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I don't think fascism is dying for.
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