Penn Jillette Short Quotes

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I've always wanted to make the world a more rational place. I'm still working on it.

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Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.

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We are only here for a little while, and our bodies belong to ourselves and no one else.

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The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all.

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TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.

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My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.

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Exploration of space is worth it because humans need to explore. Knowledge is always good, and it's a really cool thing to see.

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Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.

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If you've gotten yourself into a situation when Clay Aiken is going to talk about his feelings with you, it's time to kill yourself.

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Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people

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You don't have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able to say is "I don't know."

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It's fair to say that the Bible contains equal amounts of fact, history, and pizza. God works in mysterious, inefficient, and breathtakingly cruel ways.

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Two things have always been true about human beings. One, the world is always getting better. Two, the people living at that time think it s getting worse.

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I've voted Libertarian as long as I can remember, but I don't really remember much before the Clintons and the Bushes. Those clans made a lot of us bugnutty.

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We can't start getting picky because we've got enough food; that's just self-centered and racist. Unless you and yours are starving, you need to shut the fuck up!

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If you can just convince the dope people that the gun people are right and the gun people that the dope people are right, we could actually live in a lot more freedom.

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I believe that there is no God. I'm beyond atheism. Atheism is not believing in God. Not believing in God is easy — you can't prove a negative, so there's no work to do.

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I, my own damn self, am not a Tea Party supporter. I disagree with them on social liberties, our overseas wars, Obama's birthplace, Sarah Palin, and the conspicuous absence of tea at their rallies.

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