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The best break anybody ever gets is in bein' alive in the first place. An' you don't unnerstan' what a perfect deal it is until you realizes that you ain't gone be stuck with it forever, either.

— Walt Kelly Pogo comic strip (1948)

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Looking back on things, the view always improves.

Impollutable Pogo (1970)

The eleventh day of the eleventh month has always seemed to me to be special.

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We have met the enemy and he is us.

Pogo comic strip (1948)

Not all segregationists are lunatics, or even dishonest men.

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Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent.

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