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We’re all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.

Andy Rooney

I’ve learned that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.
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Fall In Love Learning Myself Perfection
One of the sweetest things in life: a letter from a friend.
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Friendship Letter Life Oneself Sweet
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
The best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.
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Class Person Room World
I’ve learned… That sometimes all a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand.
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Hands Heart Learning Person Time Understand
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
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
Nothing in fine print is ever good news.
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Goodness News Print
I’m always on the lookout for something good about people. Often months go by.
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Goodness People Time
I’ve learned That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.
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Learning Lost Missing Opportunity Position Yourself
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
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
It isn’t working that’s so hard, it’s getting ready to work.
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Hard Myself Ready Work
I can’t choose how i feel. But i can choose what I do about it.
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Action Feeling Myself Work
I’ve learned, That you should never say no to a gift from a child.
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Children Gift Learning Myself
Elephants and grandchildren never forget.
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Animal Forget Grandparents
I had one typewriter for 50 years, but I have bought seven computers in six years. I suppose that’s why Bill Gates is rich, and Underwood is out of business.
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Business Computer Myself Writing
The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.
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Greatness Mindset Virtue Way
Civilization means conforming to a standard of behavior that may not seem natural to us.
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Behavior Civilization Confirm Natural
Conservatives are more religious than liberals–although there is no evidence that they’re nicer people because of it.
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Conservatism Liberal Nice People Religious
Familiar things are a comfort to us all.
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Calm Comfortable Peace
Most of the people in the world are good and decent if you give them a chance to be.
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Chance Goodness People World Yourself
Don’t rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.
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Hands Head Rule World Yourself
In the futile attempts we all make to tidy up our lives and our surroundings, nothing is more difficult than throwing out a book.
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Book Difficult Live Surround
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
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
Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.
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Drive Game Kill Thinking Yourself

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