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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.

Bill Hicks

I was told when I grew up I could be anything I wanted: a fireman, a policeman, a doctor – even President, it seemed. And for the first time in the history of mankind, something new, called an astronaut. But like so many kids brought up on a steady diet of Westerns.
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Doctor Dream Heart Hero President
What did moths bump into before the electric light bulb was invented? Boy, the lightbulb really screwed the moth up didn’t it? Are there moths on their way to the sun now going, It’s gonna be worth it!.
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Boys Light Lightbulb Sun
If I thought the Jews killed God, I’d worship the Jews.
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Agnostic Atheism Atheist
Rock stars against drugs–that’s what we want, isn’t it? Government-approved rock-n-roll? Woo! We’re partying now!
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Approved Party Rocks Stars
You are the imagination of yourself.
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Imagination Imagine Yourself
I’ve had good times on drugs…bad times on drugs…But I’ve had good and bad relationships…and I’m not giving up pussy.
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Bad Drug Giving Relationship Up
See we just had a misunderstanding. I thought we lived in the U.S. of A., the United States of America. But actually we live in the U.S. of A., the United States of Advertising. Freedom of expression is guaranteed? If you’ve got the money!
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Country Expression United States
Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.
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Caffeine Energize Friday Monday Productive The Figure
I’m not into those kind of rivalries. I remember standing out in front of Stratford, minding my own business. Carload of about eighty kids would pull up.
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Business Kids Men Running
I’ve had seven balls of light come off a UFO…explain to me telepathically we are all one and there’s no such thing as death.
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Balls Light Seven
I don’t know what you all believe, and I don’t really care … but you have to admit that beliefs are odd. Lots of Christians wear crosses around their necks … you really think when Jesus comes back, he ever wants to see a fucking cross?
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Christian Jesus Kings Neck
People in the United Kingdom and outside the United States share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn’t share with itself.
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Country People United States
Our next Cold War ought to be with ourselves…After all, who poses the biggest danger to the American environment? We do.
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Cold Environment Next War
I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.
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Believe Humanity Ideas Revolutionary
We’ll see who believes in me now. I am the Prankster God – I am killing me!
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Believe Killing Pranksters
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
Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.
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Ideas Next Revolutionary
I wouldn’t give Satan a snowball’s chance in Hell against a woman’s ego.
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Chance Ego Giving
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
Do I have a message? Yes, I do. Here’s my message: as scary as the world is – and it is – it is merely a ride …
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Messages Scary World
There is a 3rd point of view on the gun control issue – those who I refer to as THE VICTIMS – but they remain strangely silent.
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Gun Issues Silent Views
It’s an insane world, and I’m proud to be a part of it.
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Insane Part Proud World
To me pornography is…spending all your money and not educating the people in America, but spending it instead on weapons.
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Country People Weapons
The Voice of Reason is in us all…and everyone can recognize it because it makes sense and everyone benefits from it equally.
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Benefits Reason Voice
Is it impossible to imagine Americans sneaking into Mexico en masse, seeking regular employment and a better way of life?
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Country Employment Way
I just have one of those faces. People come up to me and say, ‘What’s wrong?’ Nothing. ‘Well, it takes more energy to frown than it does to smile.’ Yeah, you know it takes more energy to point that out than it does to leave me alone?
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Alone Funny Humor Knowledge People
Enjoy your evening. See, I know that you entertain this eternal life fantasy because you’ve chosen not to smoke, but let me be the 1st to POP that bubble and bring you hurling back to reality . . . You’re dead too.
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Enjoy Eternal Evening Fantasy Reality

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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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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