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Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.

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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
Thomas Andrew Lehrer
Thomas Lehrer
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Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics/ And the Catholics hate the Protestants/ And the Hindus hate the Muslims/ And everybody hates the Jews.
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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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Filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, everything is lewd.
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You can raise welts like nobody else, as we dance to the Masochism Tango.
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I wasn't really a performer by temperament.
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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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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.
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Be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.
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I ache for the touch of your lips dear, but much more for the touch of your whips dear.
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I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.
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Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air!
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In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl now you can't say 'girl.'
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Be it ever so decadent, there's no place like home.
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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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But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.
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