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One of the sweetest things in life: a letter from a friend.

Andy Rooney

I just wish this social institution [religion] wasnt based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs and myths directed toward proving something that isnt true.
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Custom Direction Evidence Institution Monument Myself Myth Social
I’ve learned, That life is tough, but I’m tougher.
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Learning Life Myself Tough
Being kind is more important than being right.
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Important Kind Right
Don’t rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.
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Hands Head Rule World Yourself
Civilization means conforming to a standard of behavior that may not seem natural to us.
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Behavior Civilization Confirm Natural
If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.
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Drink Goodness Hands Happiness Live Quite
If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
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Alone Happiness Smile Yourself
Age is nothing but experience, and some of us are more experienced than others
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Age Experience Level
Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.
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Avoid Cook Eat Food Yourself
I’ve learned, That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am.
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Growth Learning Myself Person Smart
The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food, and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it!
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Big Bookstore Diet Eat Yourself
Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn’t have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.
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Goodness Ideas Ourselves Prison Religious
I’ve learned, That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.
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Adult Block Children Father Simple Summer Walk Wonder
I’ve learned, That the less time I have to work with, the more things I get done.
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Learning Myself Time Work
I’ve learned that under everyone’s hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.
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Appreciation Hard Learning Love
Elephants and grandchildren never forget.
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Animal Forget Grandparents

One of the sweetest things in life: a letter from a friend.

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