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Tom Lehrer

American musical satirist and mathematics professor

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#  ·  **-- Not So Good (one rating)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

Life is like a sewer — what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

Tom Lehrer, (from the album An Evening Wasted), in Life and Death

An Evening Wasted (audio CD)

#  ·  **** Very Good (one rating)  ·  submitted 1997

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!

Tom Lehrer, in Love and Hate

#  ·  ---- Unrated  ·  submitted 1997

If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it.

Tom Lehrer, in Wisdom and Ignorance

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