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“I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes]”

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Bill Hicks was an American comedian known for his unique style of humor and profound insights into social phenomena. His performances often featured satire and dark humor, addressing issues such as religion, politics, social problems, and personal beliefs. Hicks' career was brief, but his influence in the comedy world has endured to this day. more

“I got this big fear of doing smoking jokes in my act and showing up five years from now goin' [puts mic to his neck and speaks as if he had a mechanical larynx] 'good evening everybody, remember me, smoking's bad. [puts cigarette to neck and mimics smoking it] Eeww. You ever seen somebody do that? I've seen someone do that. Let me tell you something — if you're smoking out of a hole in your neck [mimics it again] I'd think about quitting. And that's just me, ya know.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Years Bigs Remember Speak Five Jokes Let Me Quitting Holes Evening Five Years Smoking Necks Cigarette Showing Up Remember Me Mics Good Evening

Author:Bill Hicks

“And I'm not getting laid! What am I doing wrong?”

Getting Laid

Author:Bill Hicks

“Why do we put people who are on drugs in jail? They're sick, they're not criminals. Sick people don't get healed in prison. You see? It makes no sense.”

People Drug Sick Prison Criminals Jail Healed

Author:Bill Hicks

“Speaking of Satan, I was watching Rush Limbaugh the other day.”

Satan

Author:Bill Hicks

“Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times.”

Former These Days Deceit Fraud

Book:The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Knt. [1572-1617]: In English, in Thirteen Parts Complete; with References to All the Ancient and Modern Books of the Law

Source: The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Knt. [1572-1617]: In English, in Thirteen Parts Complete; with References to All the Ancient and Modern Books of the Law

“How easily men satisfy themselves that the Constitution is exactly what they wish it to be”

Men Wish Constitution

Book:Commentaries on the constitution of the United States

Source: Commentaries on the constitution of the United States

“What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what hospitals, what ruins, what cities in ashes, what hunger and nakedness, what orphanages, what widowhood, what wrongs and what vengeance.”

War Cities Fields Army Prison Hunger Ruins Hospitals Troops Ashes Vengeance Orphanage Widowhood

Author:Clara Barton

“My business is stanching blood and feeding fainting men; my post the open field between the bullet and the hospital. I sometimes discuss the application of a compress or a wisp of hay under a broken limb, but not the bearing and merits of a political movement. I make gruel--not speeches; I write letters home for wounded soldiers, not political addresses.”

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