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The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own.

Frank Zappa

There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it’s going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it.
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Dirty Fire Hear Positive Powerful
Tobacco is my favorite vegetable.
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Favorite Funny Tabacco Vegetable
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
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Hydrogen Life Stupidity Universe
Republican is fine, if your a millionaire. Democrats is fair, if all you own is what you wear. Neither of them’s really right, cause neither of them care.
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Democracy Millionaire Politics Republic
You can bet everything will come to an end. It’s going to be ugly and it’s going to be a mess, and it’s going to be something that somebody did in the name of God.
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Bet Death God Life Mess Name Reality Ugly
The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else’s life.
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Advice Interfere Life
Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.
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Believe Existence Fact Support Virtue
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
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Bill Bunch Date Deadline Decoration Music Production
I enjoy irritating the people who enjoy being irritated.
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Enjoyment Irritation People
Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.
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Deliver Goodness Music Religion
A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.
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Asshole Chemical Compound Drugs People
Jazz isn’t dead. It just smells funny.
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Dead Funny Jazz Music Smell
Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.
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Communism People Stuff Work
There’s a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.
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Atheist Bend Difference Knee
Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.
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Art Close Meet Science Weapon
My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.
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Advice Children Happiness Health
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best.
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Beauty Information Knowledge Love Music Truth Wisdom
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
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Deviation Motivational Progress
Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water, they were passed to get votes.
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Air Environment Protection Vote
The richest people in the world aren’t particularly smart or happy. And the happiest people in the world aren’t particularly smart or rich. That leaves me making music. But we can’t talk about that.
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Happiness Music People Rich Smart
A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.
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Artist Force Molecule Music Suspect
You are what you is, you is what you am, you ain’t what you’re not. So see what you got?
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Be Yourself Believe
A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.
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Deep Inspirational Mind Parachute Sarcastic
Power will be maintained by the groovy guy or gal who gets the most media coverage for his sleaze. Naturally, his friends in various businesses will do okay, too.
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Business Coverage Guy Maintain Media Power
The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion.
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Freedom Illusion Profit
The computer can’t tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what’s missing is the eyebrows.
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Computer Emotional Mathematics Story
Anything played wrong twice in a row is the beginning of an arrangement.
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Arrangement Beginning Inspirational Play Wrong

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