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Thou shalt not take anything on faith
Penn Jillette
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Penn Jillette
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 5
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World War II proves there's no God.
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Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious it'll make you bugnutty.
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My love of computers, besides being practical, is very direct and visceral. I love the way things look on the screen.
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My tolerance for crazy people is, I think, high a tolerance as you're ever going to find. I love being around David Allen Coe. I would have loved to hang out with Tiny Tim. I can listen to Sun Ra on a tape-recording rant.
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I'm an amazing mama's boy.
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I believe the fast track to atheism is reading the Bible. I've read it three times all the way through. It's a big part of our culture, a big part of our history. I don't just read things I agree with.
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Freedom means the right to be stupid.
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Make deals with people, not paper.
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Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.
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My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.
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We celebrities are desperate pigs.
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