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I guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.

Lily Tomlin

You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what’s current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.
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Funny Hard Interest Talk Yourself
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
People hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.
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Acceptance Creation Kind Myself People
If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well viewed.
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Book Hypocrisy Reading View Yourself
Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?
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Form Intelligence Life Universe 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
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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Collection One Liner Perspective Reality
When I’ve had a meltdown, people will say to me, “Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor.”
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Failure Humor Myself People Talk Yourself
The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.
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Company Earth Name Phone Standard
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
I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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Hard Myself Try
I still believe that sex is dirty. It’s just that now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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Believe Dirty Myself Sex
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
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
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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Complain Invention Language Man Satisfaction
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

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