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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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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They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears.
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The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense to enjoy.
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It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
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Well, if you're going to watch that close, the trick is off.
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Consciousness rap - a term that I don't think exactly exists but gets thrown around a lot - is not exactly popular.
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On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty; only the streets that lead into it are jammed with people. It would be madness to go farther - the machine-gun is covering the square.
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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.
