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At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted.more Eric Idle quotes |
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For a list of all the ways
technology has failed
to improve the quality of life,
please press 3.more Alice Kahn quotes |
My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under English law at that time.more Garrison Keillor quotes |
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All I kin say is when you finds yo'self wanderin' in a peach orchard, ya don't go lookin' for rutabagas.more Kingfish quotes |
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I am determined my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.more Charles Lamb quotes |
Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it.
Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.more Richard Lamm quotes |
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[R]evenues drive expenditures, not the inverse. ... tax evasion represents a net benefit to everybody ... A statue should be erected to the unknown tax evader.more Pierre Lemieux quotes |
Did you hear that we're writing Iraq's new Constitution?
Why not just give them ours? We're not using it anymore.more Jay Leno quotes |
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A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man,
which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.more G. Gordon Liddy quotes |
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I have been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a Dome on it.more Abraham Lincoln quotes |
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There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, "Yes," you know he is a crook.more Groucho Marx quotes |
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Being in politics is like being a football coach.
You have to be smart enough to understand the game,
and dumb enough to think it's important.more Eugene McCarthy quotes |
I’m going to introduce a resolution to have the postmaster general stop reading dirty books and deliver the mail.more Gail W. McGee quotes |
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It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.more H. L. Mencken quotes |
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The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the greatest liars:
the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.more H. L. Mencken quotes |
The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.more H. L. Mencken quotes |
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Whenever 'A' attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon 'B', 'A' is most likely a scoundrel.more H. L. Mencken quotes |
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.more H. L. Mencken quotes |
It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.more H. L. Mencken quotes |
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.more H. L. Mencken quotes |
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Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule -- and both commonly succeed, and are right.more H. L. Mencken quotes |
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