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Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there’s not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.

Dick Cavett

Every so often, there is an article saying the old kind of talk show isn’t possible now. In the oldest kind of talk show, you only had the choice of that or two other channels!
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Article Channel Choice Kind Old Possible
It’s no fun being a specimen.
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Fun One Liner Specimen
You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.
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People Reason Television Watch
I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.
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Call Exception Interest Laughter Myself Religion
William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
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Amazing Capacity Greatness Man
Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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Comedy See Student
The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I’m not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.
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Brain Joke Mystery Process Result Study Subject
I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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Away Happiness Myself Stay
I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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Age Average Live Thinking
Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.
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Beyond Criticism Death Declare Escape Reproach
Depression – it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven’t been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it’s truly different.
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Category Depression Different Small True
Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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Day Device Myself Sick
I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you’re hungry for power.
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Eat Food Hungry Myself Power
I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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Associate Entertainment Myself Television
There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing – nothing at all or in any way – be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.
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Form Law Online Weapon Yourself
Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.
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Comic Court Early Known Rank Rough Survive

Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there’s not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.

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