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I feel that if any songs are gonna come out of World War III, we'd better start writing them now.

— Tom Lehrer That Was the Year That Was (1965)

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Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media.

Irreverence is easy — what's hard is wit.

I feel that if a person can't communicate, the very least he can do is to shut up.

That Was the Year That Was (1965)

Last December 13th, there appeared in the newspapers the juiciest, spiciest, raciest obituary it has ever been my pleasure to read.

That Was the Year That Was (1965)

It's people like that who make you realize how little you've accomplished. It is a sobering thought, for example, that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

That Was the Year That Was (1965)

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