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About Kin Hubbard

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Frank McKinney Hubbard (September 1, 1868 – December 26, 1930), better known as Kin Hubbard, was an American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist. His most famous work was for "Abe Martin". Introduced in The Indianapolis News in December 1904, the cartoon appeared six days a week on the back page of...

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Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.

Maybe it would be better to acknowledge, like the Greeks, that a lot of behavior we call addiction is really a love of pleasure that carries the force of habit. We become addicted mostly because of the central issue in all self-control problems, which is the disproportionate value we place on short-term rewards.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

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I'm in love with this country called "America." I'm a huge fan of America. I'm one of those annoying fans—you know, the ones that read the cd notes and follow you into bathrooms and ask you all kinds of annoying questions about why you didn't live up to that. I'm that kind of fan. I've read the Declaration of Independence, and I've read the Constitution of the United States, and they are some liner notes, dude.

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All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

—Harry S. Truman

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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.

—Virginia Woolf

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The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

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