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Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
—Whoopi Goldberg

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
—Winston Churchill

If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.
—Kurt Cobain

Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself.
—Noam Chomsky

If something is repeated over and over as obvious, the chances are that it is obviously false.
—Noam Chomsky

Maybe history wouldn't have to repeat itself if we listened once in a while.
―Wynne McLaughlin

If in order to kill the enemy you have to kill an innocent, don't take the shot. Don't create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.
—James Mattis

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
—Steven Weinberg

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
—Albert Einstein

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
—Hunter S. Thompson

This combustable mixture of ignorance and power sooner or later is going to blow up in our faces.
—Carl Sagan

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
—Emma Lazarus

Admit nothing, deny everything, launch counterattack.
—Roger Stone

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
—Shirley Temple

The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
—Harlan Ellison

Whatever it is, handle it so that your children's children will get the benefit of it.
—Theodore Roosevelt

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
—Theodore Roosevelt

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not guilty."
—Theodore Roosevelt

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President.
—Theodore Roosevelt

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
—Theodore Roosevelt

All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law.
—Theodore Roosevelt

No man is above the law, and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
—Theodore Roosevelt

Believe you can and you're halfway there.
—Theodore Roosevelt

I believe that the officers, and, especially, the directors, of corporations should be held personally responsible when any corporation breaks the law.
—Theodore Roosevelt

The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.
—Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt was said to read a book every day before breakfast in the White House, occasionally reading three books in a day.

Mitch McConnell will go down in history as the majority leader who did the most to destroy the Senate as an institution.
—Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)

The law, right now, permits companies that close down American factories and offices and move those jobs overseas to take a tax deduction for the costs associated with moving the jobs to China or India or wherever.
—Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
—Mark Twain

It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.

Never argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
—Mark Twain

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks—if we agree with him.
—Mark Twain

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
—Mark Twain

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
—Mark Twain

Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.
—Mark Twain

Do you ever wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it?

It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.
—Mark Twain

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.
—Milton Berle

At some point in the last 20 years, the left moved to the center, and the right moved into a mental institution.
—Bill Maher

The true axis of evil in America is the brilliance of our marketing combined with the stupidity of our people.
—Bill Maher

If you have a gun, you can rob a bank, but if you have a bank, you can rob everyone.
—Bill Maher

I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.
—Bill Maher

To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.
—Bill Maher

Denying racism is the new racism.
—Bill Maher

Thanks, Trump, for exposing evangelicals as shameless hypocrites.
—Bill Maher

The REAL Republican base is the richest 1%. The rest are the 1% wannabes, religious zealots, bigots, and really dim bulbs that drink the lavishly advertised Kool-Aid. Maintaining that under pressure from Democrats, weak as it is, must be extremely stressful.

The MIT Lincoln Laboratory named the asteroid 23238 Ocasio-Cortez after AOC when she was in high school for her second-place finish in the 2007 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair with a research project on the microbiology of cellular aging.
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