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You can’t expect insights, even the big ones, to make you suddenly understand everything. But I figure: Hey it’s a step in the right direction if they leave you confused in a deeper way.

Lily Tomlin

The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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Moral People Photograph
Remember we’re all in this alone.
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Alone One Liner Remember
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
I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.
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Existence Feeling Love Universe Wake Up
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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Love Question Yourself
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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Home Myself Teacher Thinking
You can’t expect insights, even the big ones, to make you suddenly understand everything. But I figure: Hey it’s a step in the right direction if they leave you confused in a deeper way.
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Big Confusion Deep Direction Expectation Leaving Right Understand Way
The road to success is always under construction.
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Construction Inspirational Road Success
There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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Culture Fabric Skin
No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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Change Enough Myself Transformation
I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
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Animal Eat Food Funny Myself
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
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
Having a real public outlet is how you imprint something for yourself. It’s just a matter of timing. It’s like you’ve marked your territory.
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Place Public Reality Time Yourself
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
I guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.
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Myself People Profit Thinking War

You can’t expect insights, even the big ones, to make you suddenly understand everything. But I figure: Hey it’s a step in the right direction if they leave you confused in a deeper way.

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You can’t expect insights, even the big ones, to make you suddenly understand everything. But I figure: Hey it’s a step in the right direction if they leave you confused in a deeper way.

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