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Steve Allen
December 26, 1921 - October 30, 2000
Nationality: American
Category: Entertainer
Subcategory: American Entertainer

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

   

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.

   

Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.

   

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.

   

I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind.

   

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

   

Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.

   

If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.

   

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.

   

The hair is real - it's the head that's a fake.

   

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.

   

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