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Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

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Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.

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Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.

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If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.

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One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.

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The hair is real - it's the head that's a fake.

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Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

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In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.

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If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.

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Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Entertainer

Born: December 26th, 1921

Died: October 30th, 2000

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