Discuss the stereotypes found in the following quotes.

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Clay's Humorous Quote Bag

  • Giving money and power to Government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. -- P.J. O'Rourke
  • I'm not against the blacks, and a lot of the good blacks will attest to that. -- Evan Mecham, then governor of Arizona
  • Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. -- Aristotle
  • A woman, occasionally, is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation. -- Karl Kraus
  • A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland
  • Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. -- General William Westmoreland on why the media should be controlled in wartime.

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