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| It's an honor to be taken off the air. I had to wait until I was 63. You are nobody in radio until you've been fired at least once, and I've never been fired. At least it's vindication. | | Uncategorized | |
| It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my home town, out here on the edge of the prairie | | Uncategorized | |
| Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve | | Uncategorized | |
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| Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth-breather there is. | | Uncategorized | |
| Mark Twain told jokes, but they somehow stayed funny for a hundred years; they're still funny today. When Mark Twain said, 'He was a good man in the worst sense of the word,' we know exactly what he's talking about. When he said 'Wagner's music is not as bad as it sounds,' it still is funny. Mark Twain was really a miracle. | | Uncategorized | |
| May his soul be forever tormented by fire - And his bones be dug up by dogs - And dragged through the streets of Minneapolis | | Uncategorized | |
| Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted. | | Uncategorized | |
| One day Donald Trump will discover that he is owned by Lutheran Brotherhood and must re negotiate his debt load with a committee of silent Norwegians who don't understand why anyone would pay more than $120.00 for a suit. | | Uncategorized | |
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| People will miss that it once meant something to be Southern or Midwestern. It doesn't mean much now, except for the climate. The question, 'Where are you from?' doesn't lead to anything odd or interesting. They live somewhere near a Gap store, and what else do you need to know? | | Uncategorized | |
| Powder Milk biscuits: Buy them ready-made in the big blue box with the picture of the biscuit on the front, or in the brown bag with the dark stains that indicate freshness | | Uncategorized | |
| Powdermilk biscuits: Heavens, they're tasty and expeditious! They're made from whole wheat, to give shy persons the strength to get up and do what needs to be done | | Uncategorized | |
| Ralph Stanley is like an uncle to us and now that all my uncles are gone, Ralph's singing is even more precious. This album of classic folk songs is one of his best. | | Uncategorized | |
| Secret of life is to go through something harrowing that doesn't kill you...and to love one woman for the rest of your life. | | Uncategorized | |
| Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze. | | Uncategorized | |
| Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. | | Luck | |
| Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it. | | Uncategorized | |
| Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. | | Life | |
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