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Lame

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Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. Thompson Journalist, Author

"Rush Limbaugh is a lame professional swine, and he makes a good living at it. He is like a hired geek in some traveling backwoods carnival - the freaks who bite the heads off chickens - but Limbaugh is a modernized geek who thinks he can bite the heads off of people."

Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein Science Fiction Author

"The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; the second five are half truths, neither complete nor adequate."

John Calvin
John Calvin Theologian, Reformer

"For what accords better and more aptly with faith than to acknowledge ourselves divested of all virtue that we may be clothed by God, devoid of all goodness that we may be filled by him, the slaves of sin that he may give us freedom, blind that he may enlighten, lame that he may cure, and feeble that he may sustain us; to strip ourselves of all ground of glorying that he alone may shine forth glorious, and we be glorified in him?"

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
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"A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is. And lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you'll go out of business."

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial."

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Christian Smith Sociologist
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"The problem is that, regardless of what our theologies tell us about the purpose of the clergy, the actual effect of the clergy profession is to make the body of Christ lame. This happens not because clergy intend it (they usually intend the opposite) but because the objective nature of the profession inevitably turns the laity into passive receivers."

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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter
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"The rifleman's stalking the sick and the lame, preacherman seeks the same, who'll get there first is uncertain."

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Augusten Burroughs Author, Memoirist
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"I don't really think of my blog as a real blog. It's a lame blog. It's more like my when-the-mood-strikes update, or smoke signal."

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Scott Cohen Actor
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"Facebook is one way to be able to communicate in a quick way. I never hired a firm to send out pictures and such so I am lame that way. All I can say is how grateful I am for the fans I have."

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Tom Waits Singer-songwriter, Actor
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"The ship is sinking The ship is sinking There's leak, there's a leak,in the boiler room The poor, the lame, the blind Who ore the ones that we kept in charge Killers, thieves, and lawyers God's Away, God's away God's away on Business"

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Kami Garcia Author
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"So he's like a human compass? As far as superpowers go, that's pretty lame. You're like the Caster equivalent of Aquaman."

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"The Lame goes as farre as your staggerer. [The lame goes as far as your staggerer.]"

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