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I don't believe in good people and bad people. I believe in the better parts of people.

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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Parts
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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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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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I don't think crucifixion is the answer. I believe in the resurrection. I like that part of the story.
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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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You haven't lived until you've died in California
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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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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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If you were the only person left on the planet, I would have to attack you. That's my job.
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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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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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Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.
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Everything I tell you is true, but this is factual.
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Obama is running again for spite.
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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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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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A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.
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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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The New York Times is the official leak of the State Department.
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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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