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No, I don’t do drugs anymore, either. But I’ll tell you something about drugs. I used to do drugs, but I’ll tell you something honestly about drugs, honestly, and I know it’s not a very popular idea, you don’t hear it very often anymore, but it is the truth,

Bill Hicks

Folks, it’s time to evolve. That’s why we’re troubled. You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything’s failing? It’s because, um – they’re no longer relevant. We’re supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?
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Church Ideas Revolutionary Thumbs
I believe we all have the Voice of Reason inside us…to gently lead us out of our own self-created hells.
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Believe Self Voice
Why do we put people who are on drugs in jail? They’re sick, they’re not criminals. Sick people don’t get healed in prison. You see? It makes no sense.
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Criminal Drugs Jail People Sick
…love rather than fear…this radical philosophy is coming from me, an avowed misanthrope…surely there is hope for us all.
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Philosophy Radical
The role of the comedian is to say ‘Wait a minute’ when a consensus starts to form.
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Comedian Roles Starts Waiting
I’ll smoke, I’ll cough, I’ll get the tumors, I’ll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes]
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Country Deals Salute
I don’t identify with anyone historically, but there are several people in the future who I am a dead ringer for.
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Future Historically People Several
Good comedy helps people know they’re not alone. Great comedy provides an answer.
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Answers Helping People
I’m a heavy smoker. I go through two lighters a day.
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Funny Humor Two
At least he f-kin’ jams! If it’s a choice between eternal Hell and good tunes, and eternal Heaven and New Kids on the f-kin’ Block … I’m gonna be surfin’ on the lake of fire, rockin’ out.
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Block Eternal Kids Least Out Rocking
I am a misanthropic humanist… Do I like people? They’re great, IN THEORY.
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Misanthropic People Theory
We are losing the ‘War on Drugs,’ which means there’s a war going on and people on drugs are winning it.
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Drugs Mean War Winning
How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? …Seventy percent. What the fuck? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?
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Jobs People Vote
The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they’ve never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people’s minds, exposing them to the light.
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Exposing Laughing Light People
I’d…bet enthusiasm for ‘ethnic cleansing’ will wane if only sticks and rocks are available for the warring parties.
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Enthusiasm Party Rocks
You want a better world…? Legalize pot right now. …end the deficit? Legalize pot right now…biggest cash crop in America.
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Cash Country World

No, I don’t do drugs anymore, either. But I’ll tell you something about drugs. I used to do drugs, but I’ll tell you something honestly about drugs, honestly, and I know it’s not a very popular idea, you don’t hear it very often anymore, but it is the truth,

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