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Molly Ivins: “It's hard to argue against cynics -- they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.
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Molly Ivins: “I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.
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Molly Ivins: “What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.
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Molly Ivins: “The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.
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Molly Ivins: “You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.
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Molly Ivins: “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.
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Molly Ivins: “As a veteran of many an electoral defeat at the polls, may I remind you of the proper Texan attitude toward slaughter at the polls?

A few years before Billie Carr died this September at age 74, a friend called to ask how she was doing. ‘Well,’ she said, ‘They just impeached my boy up in Washington, there’s not a Democrat left in statewide office in Texas, the Republicans have taken every judgeship in Harris County, and yesterday I found out I have cancer.’

Pause.

‘I think I’ll go out and get a pregnancy test because with my luck, it’ll come back positive.’
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Molly Ivins: “I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.
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Molly Ivins: “Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair's-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly less awful than the other. But it does raise the question: Why bother? Oh, it's just that your life is at stake.
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Molly Ivins: “I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.
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Molly Ivins: “Although it is true that only about 20 percent of American workers are in unions, that 20 percent sets the standards across the board in salaries, benefits and working conditions. If you are making a decent salary in a non-union company, you owe that to the unions. One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.
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Molly Ivins: “In Texas, we do not hold high expectations for the [governor's] office; it's mostly been occupied by crooks, dorks and the comatose.
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Molly Ivins: “Good thing we've still got politics in Texas -- finest form of free entertainment ever invented.
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