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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.

Lily Tomlin

I worry about kids today – because of the sexual revolution, they’re going to grow up and never know what “dirty” means.
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Children Dirty Myself Revolution Sex Worry
Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.
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Form Intelligence Life Lose Play Share Space Win
We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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Consumption Life Live People Style
In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone
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Alone Feeling Heart Mindset Myself Night
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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Complain Deep Development Language Need Personal
Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket – The road to success is always under construction.
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Construction Hands Ladder Road Success
What if it’s boring – or if it’s not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.
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Boredom Hide Reveal Worst
Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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Name Top Yourself
If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
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Beautiful Hairs Library Woman
9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn’t really happened, but it has come closer.
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Equality Money Pay People Work
Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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Help Myself Thinking Trouble Worst
We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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Believe Freedom Hands Man Reason Sex Walk
The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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Belief Better Possible Start World
I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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Beautiful Life Myself Pervert Thinking
Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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Leadership Reality Touch
Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
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Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic?
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Deep God Hypocrisy Prayer Talk
Wouldn’t it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.
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Greatness Growth World
There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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Culture Fabric Skin
If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.
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Cat Development Dog Sensitive Suffering Yourself
It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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Change Comedy Humor Present Ridicule
My politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.
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Education Empathy Growth Human Kind Myself Politics Religion
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
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Adult Country Election Hard Work
I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
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Action Deep Inspirational Motivational Myself
Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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Place Sorry Yourself
If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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Hypocrisy Life Meaning
When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.
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