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Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.

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With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.
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Abandonment Ambitious Defeat Failure Occasion Philosophy Purpose
In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers we daily escape.
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Adversity Dangerous Escape Reason Suffering Understand
$Norm MacDonald Quote - In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That’s what I liked about math. You could figure it out, and the teacher couldn’t have a stupid opinion about it.$

In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That’s what I liked about math. You could figure it out, and the teacher couldn’t have a stupid opinion about it.
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Mathematics Opinion Stupidity Subject Teacher Yourself
Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.
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Enjoyment Love Man Small Wind
I don’t know the difference between a hippie and a hipster but, it’s fun to watch either one of them get beat up.
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Difference Fight Fun Myself See
Comedy is surprises, so if you’re intending to make somebody laugh and they don’t laugh, that’s funny.
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Comedy Funny Laughter Surprise Yourself
I don’t care for sex. I find it an embarrassing, dull exercise. I prefer sports, where you can win.
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Care Exercise Preference Sex Win Yourself
During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
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Condition Deserve Misfortune Ourselves
I can’t be naturalistic enough to make it sound real. So instead, I just wander around aimlessly knowing that I’ll be funny enough with stream of consciousness until I get to the actual explosively funny part.
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Enough Funny Myself Natural Reality Sound
They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.
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Behavior Fate Fools Ignorance Tragedy
Liberty, like health, appears most precious when lost.
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Appearance Health Liberty Lost Precious
Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
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Better Ignorance Knowledge Philosophy
I’m thankful for women. I think women are more intelligent than men. Also, without women, there would be no cookies.
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Cook Intelligence Man Myself Thankful Woman
Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.
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Action Change Practice Principle Thinking
It is necessary to be tolerant, in order to be tolerated.
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Deep Necessary Tolerance
The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.
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Beginning Knowledge Mistake Philosophy Wisdom

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