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It isn’t working that’s so hard, it’s getting ready to work.

Andy Rooney

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
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End Live People Remember Teacher
Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way, one at a time.
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Goodness Kill Old Oneself People Return Time World
A great many people do not have the right to their own opinion because they don’t know what they are talking about.
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Greatness Opinion People Permission Right Talk
You can’t be a good writer without being a good thinker.
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Goodness Poet Thinking Writer Yourself
My most serious character flaw is that I don’t deny myself much.
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Character Flaw Myself Serious
I’d like to be rich enough so I could throw soap away after the letters are worn off.
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Enough Funny Letter Money Myself Rich
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
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
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
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Average Dog Nice Person
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
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
Nothing in fine print is ever good news.
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Goodness News Print
I’ve learned that no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.
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Act Friendship Learning Life Myself Requirement Serious
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
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
I didn’t get old on purpose, it just happened. If you’re lucky, it could happen to you.
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Luck Old Purpose Yourself
The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.
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Greatness Mindset Virtue Way
Familiar things are a comfort to us all.
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Calm Comfortable Peace
I’ve learned that everyone you meet deserves to be greeted with a smile.
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Deserve Learning Myself Smile
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
I’d be more willing to accept religion, even if I didn’t believe it, if I thought it made people nicer to each other but I don’t think it does.
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Acceptance Believe Myself People Religion Thinking Willing
Most of us aren’t that interested in getting rich- we just don’t want to get poor.
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Focus Interest Perspective Poor Rich
Do I have opinions that might piss people off? Yes – that’s what I’m here for.
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Myself Opinion People
The fastest thing computers do is go obsolete.
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Computer Fast Technology
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 life is tough, but I’m tougher.
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Learning Life Myself Tough

It isn’t working that’s so hard, it’s getting ready to work.

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