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 like to work really hard and then earn the good life. I actually enjoy it. If you're eating caviar all the time, it doesn't taste good anymore.
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Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.
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Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
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Consciousness and Healing To proceed very far through the desert, you must be willing to meet existential suffering and work it through. In order to do this, the attitude toward pain has to change. This happens when we accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.
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I ache for the touch of your lips dear, but much more for the touch of your whips dear.
