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Y'see, when you start to lick a national problem you have to go after the fundamentables. You want to cut down air pollution? Cut down the original source... Breathin!

— 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.

Ten Everlovin' Blue-Eyed Years With Pogo (1959)

We have met the enemy and he is us.

Pogo comic strip (1948)

Not all segregationists are lunatics, or even dishonest men.

Ten Everlovin' Blue-Eyed Years With Pogo (1959)

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

Pogo comic strip (1948)

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