"Once all the Germans were warlike and mean……" — Tom Lehrer
"Once all the Germans were warlike and mean But that couldn't happen again We taught them a lesson in nineteen eighteen And they've hardly bothered us since then"
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68 Quotes by Tom Lehrer
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Be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.
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The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the…
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Base eight is just like base ten really, if you're missing two fingers.
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Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to…
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In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.'
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I wasn't really a performer by temperament,
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You can make fun with Saddam Hussein jokes ... but you can't make fun of, say, the concentration camps. I…
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Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics/ And the Catholics hate the Protestants/ And the Hindus hate the Muslims/ And everybody…
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If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps…
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But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the…
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In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: plagiarize; only be sure always to call it…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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