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"Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful."
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"I don't want to see him alone. He says things that annoy me. He gives me good advice."
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"He [Old Mr. Turveydrop] was a fat old gentleman with a false complexion, false teeth, false whiskers, and a wig. He had a fur collar, and he had a padded breast to his coat, which only wanted a star or a broad blue ribbon to be complete. He was pinched in, and swelled out, and got up, and strapped down, as much as he could possibly bear."
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"On the Kite, the situation was being 'workshopped'. This is the means by which people who don't know anything get together to pool their ignorance."
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"Or he'd watch the news: more plagues, more famines, more floods, more insect or microbe or small-mammal outbreaks, more droughts, more chickenshit boy-soldier wars in distant countries. Why was everything so much like itself?"
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"I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do."
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"What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.American novels, answered Lord Henry."
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"Now-a-days, men wear a fool's cap, and call it a liberty cap."
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"We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it."
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"Did I see them waving?' said Mrs Liberty'And particling, I shouldn't wonder' said the Alderman."
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"The troops and their ladies had first drunk champagne. There were also remains of sandwiches, and I stepped on one, which I think was either cucumber or watercress. I scraped it off on the curbing, left it there for germs. I'll tell you this, though: No germ is going to leave the Solar System eating sissy stuff like that.Plutonium! Now there's the stuff to put hair on a microbe's chest."
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"As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office."
Money
"I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years."
Wisdom
"Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention."
Time
"I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults."
Love
"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to."
Politics
"Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful."
Satire
"The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion."
Democracy
"I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth."
Truth
"Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented."
Politics
"It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America."
History
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