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There's a danger our fiscal bankruptcy might overtake our moral bankruptcy.

Mort Sahl

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Mort Sahl
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: May 11
Actor
Comedian
Journalist
Montreal
Quebec
Morton Lyon Sahl
Overtake
Fiscal
Bankruptcy
Danger
Moral
Might

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I never met a man I didn't like until I met Will Rogers.
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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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Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.
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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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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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That feeling of hopelessness only serves your masters.
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