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It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years. – Tom Lehrer

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Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize. – Tom Lehrer

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My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But thats just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun. – Tom Lehrer

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I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. Thats what I do. Im like a Sid Vicious for a new generation. – Avril Lavigne

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I was very sexual from a very young age. – Portia de Rossi

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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. – Henry Ford

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Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it. – Zhuangzi

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Im not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice — no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service. – John Burroughs

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The primary and most beautiful of Natures qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only. – Marquis de Sade

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