Tom Lehrer Quotes
I ache for the touch of your lips dear, but much more for the touch of your whips dear.
Tom Lehrer
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Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
Dan Quayle
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I had a 100 percent voting record with the NRA, but I don't believe in bazookas in our schools.
Victor Mitchell
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Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
Barbara Tuchman
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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.'
Eddie Izzard
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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.
Yvon Chouinard
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What is the world, O soldiers? It is I, I, this incessant snow, This northern sky.
Walter de La Mare
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You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The truth is, the liberal policies of the elite class have done little to improve the lot of those who depend so much on them. In America's black communities, where the goodies have been flowing for decades, rather than seeing improvements in terms of upward mobility, we are seeing deteriorating family structure, increases in violent crimes, growing poverty, and growing dependence. Even with such a blatant record of failure, there is slavish devotion to the elite class who continue to promise more goodies in exchange for votes.
Benjamin Carson
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My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.
Fantasia Barrino
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The taxing power of the Federal Government, my dear; the taxing power is sufficient for everything you want and need.
Harlan Stone
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He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire. He could not even make himself stretch out his hand to switch on the light. The simple transition from intention to action seemed an unimaginable miracle.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Zero is powerful because it is infinity's twin. They are equal and opposite, yin and yang.
Charles Seife
