Quote by Norman Lear
It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desi

It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much. – Norman Lear

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But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was thats not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. – Norman Lear

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dad
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I guess because the shows were activist in their own way – the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know – people understand me very well. They also understand theres a very strong bipartisan part in all of this. – Norman Lear

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But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. Theyre all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives. – Norman Lear

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The destroyer of weeds, thistles and thorns is a benefactor, whether he soweth grain or not. – Robert Ingersoll, inscription to Volume I, Collected Works

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If you always give, you will always have. – Chinese Proverb

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The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual. – Charles Towne

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The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts. – Samuel Johnson

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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. – Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religions imminent demise. – Jonathan Sacks

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Maybe its our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer. – Chuck Palahniuk

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