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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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If you can't join them, beat them.
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This matter of two sides to every question is bad logic and bad practice: sometimes there are no sides sometimes there are a hundred.
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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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I'm not a liberal, I'm a radical!
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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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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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New book on Malcolm X says we don't know how he was killed. Want to bring in the FBI. Maybe they were in already.
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Obama is running again for spite.
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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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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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A Yuppie is someone who believes it's courageous to eat in a restaurant that hasn't been reviewed yet.
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Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.
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I never met a man I didn't like until I met Will Rogers.
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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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