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		Economist Frederick Thayer has studied the history of our balanced-budget crusades and has come up with some depressing statistics. We have had six major depressions in our history (1819, 1837, 1857, 1873, 1893 and 1929); all six of them followed sustained periods of reducing the national debt. We have had almost chronic deficits since the 1930s, and there has been no depression since then - the longest crash-free period in our history.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Molly Ivins 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I'm always trying to make myself laugh. I'm the most enthusiastic audience I'm likely to find, so if it doesn't make me smile then it probably won't work on you. The jokes that only make me shrug get cut. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		I don't read books. I read 'On the Road' in high school, and that was awesome, so I guess that's my favorite book. 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' even though I didn't read it, that's the greatest story. SparkNotes came in when I was in high school, and that was the greatest invention. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		I don't believe in lynching, I just don't support legal action being taken against the KKK 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		Life isn't just about what you can have; it's about what you have to give, what kind of person do you want to be? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		The greatest treasures of your life are associated with the people you love and who love you in return. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise men have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a man's own breast. Trust thyself. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Aristotle 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The kind of smile that has kept a froggy, dark sort of surprise in its back pocket, and won’t spoil it too soon. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Catherynne M. Valente 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Imagine a libertarian president ending impediments to free markets. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		Legolas is fantastic to dress up in - of course he is - and I've had the best time playing him. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		Economist Frederick Thayer has studied the history of our balanced-budget crusades and has come up with some depressing statistics. We have had six major depressions in our history (1819, 1837, 1857, 1873, 1893 and 1929); all six of them followed sustained periods of reducing the national debt. We have had almost chronic deficits since the 1930s, and there has been no depression since then - the longest crash-free period in our history. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Molly Ivins