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“ If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow. ”

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When my mother passed away several years ago—well, wait a minute. Actually, she didn’t ‘pass away.’ She died. Something about that verb, ‘to pass away’ always sounds to me as if someone just drifted through the wallpaper. No, my mother did not pass away. She definitely died.

~ Steve Allen

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In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.

~ Steve Allen

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Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

~ Steve Allen

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If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens in the absence of prayers.

~ Steve Allen

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