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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

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Tom Lehrer
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 9
Lyricist
Mathematician
Pianist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
University Teacher
New York City
New York
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When you attend a funeral, It is sad to think that sooner o' Later those you love will do the same for you. And you may have thought it tragic, Not to mention other adjec- Tives, to think of all the weeping they will do. (But don't you worry.
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Everything is so weird in politics that it's very hard to be funny about it, I think.
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Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.
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Be it ever so decadent, there's no place like home.
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You can make fun with Saddam Hussein jokes ... but you can't make fun of, say, the concentration camps. I think my target was not so much evil, but benign stupidity people doing stupid things without realising or, instead, thinking they were doing good.
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They love us everywhere we go. So when in doubt, send the Marines.
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Plagiarize! Plagiarize, Let no one else's work evade your eyes, Remember why the good Lord made your eyes, So don't shade your eyes, But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize... Only be sure always to call it please research.
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And although I'm all for freedom of expression and against censorship, there are certain things I'm not willing to go to jail for.
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Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down ? That's not my department.
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Angels we have heard on High Tell us to go out and Buy.
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