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Angels we have heard on High Tell us to go out and Buy.

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Tom Lehrer
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 9
Lyricist
Mathematician
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New York City
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Thomas Andrew Lehrer
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To me, being funny is more important than making a point, but I don't know. Most politicians are so interested in making points that they don't ... I'd rather be funny myself, and I'd rather listen to somebody with a little sense of humor.
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On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.
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Bad weather always looks worse through a window.
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I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
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I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.
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Be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.
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My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun.
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Life is like a sewer - what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. It's always seemed to me that this is precisely the sort of dynamic, positive thinking that we so desperately need today in these trying times of crisis and universal brouhaha.
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The reason most folksongs are so atrocious is that they were written by the people.
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The audience usually has to be with you, I'm afraid. I always regarded myself as not even preaching to the converted, I was titillating the converted.
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Be it ever so decadent, there's no place like home.
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Filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, everything is lewd.
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I've heard it quoted that I was dead. You can't believe anything you read. That was just an off-hand remark somebody picked up, and now it's been quoted and quoted, and therefore misquoted.
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Base eight is just like base ten really, if you're missing two fingers.
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In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: plagiarize only be sure always to call it . . . research.
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Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under oath I ever said it.
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So long, Mom I'm off to drop the bomb So don't wait up for me But while you swelter Down there in your shelter You can see me On your TV
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