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Don't take life so serious, son...it ain't no how permanent.
--Porky Pine, June 19-24, 1950
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Walt Kelly (Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, Vol. 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder)
Walt Kelly (Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, Vol. 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder)
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The peddling of fear in any form as incentive to faith remains the most egregious sin that can be committed in the name of Jesus. It feels very good to name the enemy and thank God that you are not like “those people.” But if Christianity is to survive, someone needs to stand up in the middle of one of these hapless sermons and quote the comic-strip character Pogo: “We have met the enemy, and he is us.
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Robin Meyers (Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus)
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Scuse me—gotta hurry home—left the chillun on the stove.
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Walt Kelly (Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, Vol. 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder)
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Yowpee! I pulls my brandin' irons an' comes out a-bitin' the dust—a reg'lar Hoopalong Cassowary!
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Walt Kelly (Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, Vol. 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder)
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Albert made of solid alligator—he heavy.
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Walt Kelly (Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, Vol. 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder)
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We have met the enemy and he is us. —POGO (COMIC-STRIP CHARACTER CREATED BY WALT KELLY
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Stephen J. Harper (A Great Game: The Forgotten Leafs & the Rise of Professional Hockey)
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As the comic strip character Pogo purportedly said, we have met the enemy and he is us. Our distorted, unrealistic expectations for avoiding all failures are indeed the culprit.
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Amy C. Edmondson (Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well)