I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.

—Groucho Marx

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About Groucho Marx

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Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx (; October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977) was an American comedian, actor, comic vocalist and game show host who performed in vaudeville, Broadway, films, radio, and television. A master of the one-line retort, he is considered one of America's greatest comedians.

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It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

—Groucho Marx

All people are born alike—except Republicans and Democrats.

—Groucho Marx

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

—Groucho Marx

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Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

—Groucho Marx

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One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.

—Groucho Marx

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When we are violent to our enemies, we do violence to ourselves. When we brutalize others, we brutalize ourselves. And eventually we run the risk of becoming our oppressors.

—Arundhati Roy

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Zen is like chemotherapy for me. It's brutal medicine that makes you go bald, but it beats the alternative.

—Shozan Jack Haubner in Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk

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There's a schizoid quality to our relationship with animals, in which sentiment and brutality exist side by side. Half the dogs in America will receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us pause to consider the miserable life of the pig—an animal easily as intelligent as a dog—that becomes the Christmas ham.

—Michael Pollan

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There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

—Muhammad Ali

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Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche.… The Age of Enlightenment, which stripped nature and human institutions of gods, overlooked the God of Terror who dwells in the human soul.

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