Molly Ivins Quotes
I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.
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I like to keep my private life private.
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I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewel.
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Quite simply, our one hope for spiritual safety during these turbulent times is to turn our minds and our hearts to Jesus Christ.
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Gotta go let me get the car key You don't want it wit the Harajuku Barbie
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Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
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Mature love is not a surrender of the self but a surrender to the self. The ego surrenders its hegemony of the personality to the heart, but in this surrender it is not annihilated. Rather it is strengthened because its roots in the body are nourished by the joy that the body feels.
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The death of a thousand worshipers is easier to bear than the death of a scholar who has knowledge of what Allah has permitted and forbidden.
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Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ's followers get from the world.
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If you like your healthcare plan, you'll be able to keep your healthcare plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.
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The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.
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I think one of the dirty little secrets that I try to reveal here is that Washington is not hopelessly divided. It's very interconnected. We're talking about people sort of feeding from the same insider trough, where if you are known as an insider, you are going to get paid and do very, very, very well.
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He said take out your maps, folks, here's where we're winning, here's where we're losing, here's what we have to do.
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A learned man is a tank; a wiser man is a spring.
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Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object – we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to kill animals lest they should suffer. Kindness, merely as such, cares not whether its object becomes good or bad, provided only that it escapes suffering.
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I'll tell you how I'd like to be remembered: As a black man who won the heavyweight title - Who has humorous and who never looked down on those who looked up to him - A man who stood for freedom, justice and equality - And I wouldn't even mind if folks forgot how pretty I was.
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It's time for the people of the Empire State to strike back.
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I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me.
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Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?
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Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness
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Over time he learned that the way to have a leg up on everyone else was to anticipate something before it happened and then have the answer to it.
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I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.
