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I’ve learned, That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am.

Andy Rooney

All of us talk faster than we listen.
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Fast Listening Ourselves Talk
Familiar things are a comfort to us all.
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Calm Comfortable Peace
You can’t be a good writer without being a good thinker.
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Goodness Poet Thinking Writer Yourself
When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.
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Age Fresh Myself Wait
I don’t know anything offhand that mystifies Americans more than the cotton they put in pill bottles. Why do they do it? Are you supposed to put the cotton back in once you’ve taken a pill out?
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Hands Mystery Pill Yourself
I’ve learned. That when you plan to get even with someone, you are only letting that person continue to hurt you more.
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Hurt Learning Person Planning Yourself
People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
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Acceptance Believe Fact General People Truth
Don’t you hate it when, your suitcase is the last one off the airplane?
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Hate Last Luggage Oneself Yourself
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
Those of us who don’t have a party affiliation ought to be able to register under the heading “Confused.
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Confusion Heading Party Register
I’ve learned… that just one person saying to me, ‘You’ve made my day!’ makes my day.
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Day Learning Myself Person
I don’t like food that’s too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I’d buy a painting.
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Arrangement Care Food Myself Paint Photograph Time
We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.
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Boss Need People Work
When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools.
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Basic Education Life Myself Need
All economists should be locked up until they admit that they don’t know what they’re talking about.
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Admit Economist Talk
Looking and not finding is certainly one of the most frustrating ways to spend time.
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Certain Finding Frustration Time

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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