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Every time the Russians throw an American in jail, the Committee throws an American in jail to get even.

Mort Sahl

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Mort Sahl
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: May 11
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Morton Lyon Sahl
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I'm not a liberal, I'm a radical!
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I never met a man I didn't like until I met Will Rogers.
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I'm for capital punishment. You've got to execute people. How else are they going to learn?
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That feeling of hopelessness only serves your masters.
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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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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 don't think crucifixion is the answer. I believe in the resurrection. I like that part of the story.
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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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Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.
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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 said he went to Libya because of his conscience. Did anyone ever wrestle with his conscience and lose?
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Obama is running again for spite.
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