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I didn’t get old on purpose, it just happened. If you’re lucky, it could happen to you.

Andy Rooney

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
The best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.
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Class Person Room World
The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.
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Greatness Mindset Virtue Way
Death is a distant rumor to the young.
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Death Distant One Liner Young
Don’t rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.
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Hands Head Rule World 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
It’s paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn’t appeal to anyone.
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Age Ideas Irony Life Live Old
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
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Average Dog Nice Person
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 life is tough, but I’m tougher.
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Learning Life Myself Tough
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 dislike loud-mouthed patriots who suggest they like our country more than I do. Some people’s idea of patriotism is hating other countries.
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Country Hate Loud Patriot People
If I’d known how many problems I was going to run into before I finished, I can’t remember a single project I would have started.
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Finish Myself Problem Remember
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
I’ve learned that everyone you meet deserves to be greeted with a smile.
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Deserve Learning Myself Smile
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
I’ve learned, That love, not time, heals all wounds.
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Healing Love Myself Time Wound
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
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
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
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don’t need to be done.
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Computer Easy Need Work
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
Go to bed. Whatever you’re staying up late for isn’t worth it.
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Bed Later Stay Worth
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
Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
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Happiness Life Strike Yourself
Once you pass forty, a dime isn’t worth bending over to pick up if you drop one.
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Drop Oneself Worth
I’ve learned, That when you’re in love, it shows.
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Learning Love Show Yourself

I didn’t get old on purpose, it just happened. If you’re lucky, it could happen to you.

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