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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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Peace
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When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex. – Tom Lehrer

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Food
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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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Friendship
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Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time. – Frederick Jackson Turner

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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. – Aristotle

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I believe that the fight against crime starts in the home. Parents must take responsibility for their children and show them love and guidance from an early age so they learn to respect the rights of others. – Blanche Lincoln

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

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It demonstrates to his simple mind in the most positive manner that we have no prejudice against him on account of his race, and that while he behaves himself he will be treated the same as a white man. – George Crook

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Black history is American history. – Morgan Freeman

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Learning is its own exceeding great reward. – William Hazlitt

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