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If you can't win, don't join them; learn how to lose.
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Walt Kelly (Ten Ever-Lovin' Blue-Eyed Years With Pogo)
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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)
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We have met the enemy and it is us.
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Walt Kelly, creator of Pogo
Walt Kelly (Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, Vol. 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder)
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What can I possibly have in common with perpetrators of murder and torture?” It is much more reassuring to believe that they are evil and be done with them.14 We dare not let a glimmer of their humanity in the door, because it might force us to face the haunting truth of cartoonist Walt Kelly’s great character Pogo, who famously said: “We have met the enemy and he is us.
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Carol Tavris (Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts)
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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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We are confronted by insurmountable opportunities.” —Walt Kelly (Pogo)
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Eleanor Gustafson
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Now, really, how arch
Can you be when you march
With a sword,
With a spear?
You belong
To a curious team,
You're in the extreme,
Maybe left,
Maybe right,
Maybe wrong.
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Walt Kelly (The Pogo Poop Book)
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She touched me once
And life then stopped.
She held my hand,
My frog heart hopped.
She left my mouth
And formed a smile
With lips that promised:
“In a while.”
I look, I hope, I stand, a dunce—
Where is the one who touched me once?
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Walt Kelly (The Pogo Poop Book)
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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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This is one of the most thoroughly documented findings in social psychology, but it is also the most difficult for many people to accept because of the enormous dissonance it produces: “What can I possibly have in common with perpetrators of murder and torture?” It is much more reassuring to believe that they are evil and be done with them.14 We dare not let a glimmer of their humanity in the door, because it might force us to face the haunting truth of cartoonist Walt Kelly’s great character Pogo, who famously said: “We have met the enemy and he is us.
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Carol Tavris (Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts)
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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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The eleventh day of the eleventh month has always seemed to me to be special. Even if the reason for it fell apart as the years went on, it was a symbol of something close to the high part of the heart. Perhaps a life that stretches through two or three wars takes its first war rather seriously, but I still think we should have kept the name "Armistice Day." Its implications were a little more profound, a little more hopeful.
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Walt Kelly
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We have met the enemy and he is us.”—Walt Kelly (Pogo)
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James Evans (My Zombie Honeymoon: Love in the Age of Zombies Book One)