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You have to be careful as a libertarian because you can sound very Republican.
Penn Jillette
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Penn Jillette
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 5
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Counterintuitive actions prove we can trust real knowledge and do the opposite of what we feel makes sense.
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The vast majority of the world knows there's no reason to circumcise. Someone should tell the doctors.
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The first thing I said to myself on 9/11 was, 'There go our civil rights.' I found out by comparing notes later that George Carlin and I both said that at the exact same time. That's the first thing that popped into our head.
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Juggling is very, very straightforward very, very black and white you're manipulating objects, not people. And that's always appealed to me.
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When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in.
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In my run-ins with Christians... I find that they really are good moral people. And we overlap on everything, and they don't seem to be the kind of people that are waiting to hear voices to tell them what to do.
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There are two things that have been true throughout history in big hunks. You can find differences in ten years, but in 50 year hunks, 100 years hunks, you'll find two things to be true. One, the world is always getting better. Two, people always think it's getting worse.
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Technology adds nothing to art.
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There is no reason for the government to limit political speech.
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If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed on, it would never be created exactly that way again. There might be some other nonsense in its place, but not that exact nonsense. If all of science were wiped out, it would still be true and someone would find a way to figure it all out again.
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In reality, many people let go of religion later in life.
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I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world.
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