Tom Lehrer Quotes
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Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
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I had a 100 percent voting record with the NRA, but I don't believe in bazookas in our schools.
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Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
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Pope Pius XII was meant to go and castigate Hitler for being a air quotes 'Genocidal Fuckhead … air quotes again with bunny rabbit ears'. But he didn't, he wimped out, and for that history has renamed that Pope as 'Pope Gutless Bastard I.'
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Growth isn't central at all, because I'm trying to run this company as if it's going to be here a hundred years from now. And if you take where we are today and add 15% growth, like public companies need to have for their stock to stay up in value, I'd be a multi-trillion-dollar company in 40 years. Which is impossible, of course.
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What is the world, O soldiers? It is I, I, this incessant snow, This northern sky.
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Do not ever read books about versification: no poet ever learnt it that way. If you are going to be a poet, it will come to you naturally and you will pick up all you need from reading poetry.
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Sometimes it's hard to pick right from wrong. The best thing we can do is go with our heart and hope it all goes well.
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Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing.
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Just because you’re allowed to use magic now you don’t have to whip your wands out for every tiny little thing!
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The mind-is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with the mind- Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells me That I need learn to let go with the heart.
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Because we live in Mexico City, we make rounds with the spirits of Huitzilopochtli.
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You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.
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I grew up with music very much in my life. I achieved success by combining my training as an accountant with my family upbringing and love of music.
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Whatever you do big or small, do it well or don't do it at all.
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Soap is another article in great demand--the Continental allowance is too small, and dear, as every necessary of life is now got, a soldier's pay will not enable him to purchase, by which means his consequent dirtiness adds not a little to the disease of the Army.
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As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
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I ache for the touch of your lips dear, but much more for the touch of your whips dear.
