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A two-party system is way too good for those two parties.
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I believe very much that the most damning thing you can say about Muslims is that you're afraid to say anything because they'll hurt you.
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I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the dark, read my books.
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It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness.
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I don't believe in vengeance. Really, when all is said and done, I probably don't believe in punishment.
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Someone who is a good person should have no fear of the government whatsoever.
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Counterintuitive action makes a fellow feel smart.
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Religion is often just tribalism: pride in a group one was born into, a group that is often believed to have 'God' on its side.
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We know what racist people look like. They don't deny it. They just don't!
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If you can just convince the dope people that the gun people are right and the gun people that the dope people are right, we could actually live in a lot more freedom.
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The vast majority of people who have guns never hurt anybody.
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We celebrities are desperate pigs.
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I started out as a juggler, so I know what it means to spend eight hours a day, seven days a week practicing something that people just dismiss with a wave of hand.
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I've always wanted to make the world a more rational place. I'm still working on it.
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I grew up as a Christian. I suppose at some level I wanted to believe someone was watching over me.
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I've been fired from a situational comedy with a script they wrote specifically for me because of my voice.
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When I was a kid, politicians wanted to avoid talking about religion if they could. John F. Kennedy couldn't duck the issue, being Catholic and all. So how did he address it? By reminding Americans that religion shouldn't be an issue, that he was concentrating on big things like poverty and hunger and leading the space race.
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I'm always fascinated by the use of the first-person plural talking about sports.
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If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it's the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order.
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If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed on, it would never be created exactly that way again. There might be some other nonsense in its place, but not that exact nonsense. If all of science were wiped out, it would still be true and someone would find a way to figure it all out again.
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Before you can read, you know the difference between a story and reality. And, of course, by the time you're old enough to do any real damage with an Uzi, you've learned that difference.
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Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.
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If you don't pay your taxes and you don't answer the warrant and you don't go to court, eventually someone will pull a gun. Eventually someone with a gun will show up. I want everything the government does to be done, I just want it to be done voluntarily.
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I'm really happy with all the art that was inspired by religion, and I think I'd be tickled to little tiny pieces if art in the future was inspired by other things.
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