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I’ve learned that we should be glad God doesn’t give us everything we ask for.

Andy Rooney

Most of us believe everyone has a right to his own opinion – as long as it agrees with ours.
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Agreement Believe Opinion Ourselves Right
Don’t take a butcher’s advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he’d be a chef.
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Advice Cook Himself Meat
Go to bed. Whatever you’re staying up late for isn’t worth it.
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Bed Later Stay Worth
Unfortunately, propaganda works.
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One Liner Work
The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books – how not to eat what you’ve just learned how to cook.
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Avoid Book Cook Learning
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’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
I’ve learned, That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.
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Bitter Happiness Learning Myself
If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
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Alone Happiness Smile Yourself
Civilization means conforming to a standard of behavior that may not seem natural to us.
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Behavior Civilization Confirm Natural
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 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
If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.
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Dog Fun Oneself Talk
Elephants and grandchildren never forget.
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Animal Forget Grandparents
The third rule of life is this: Everything you buy today is smaller, more expensive, and not as good as it was yesterday.
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Expensive Goodness Rule Small Yourself
My most serious character flaw is that I don’t deny myself much.
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Character Flaw Myself Serious
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
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
You can’t be a good writer without being a good thinker.
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Goodness Poet Thinking Writer Yourself
I’ve learned, That it’s those small daily happenings that make life so spectacular.
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Appreciation Learning Life Myself Small
It isn’t working that’s so hard, it’s getting ready to work.
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Hard Myself Ready Work
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
Do I have opinions that might piss people off? Yes – that’s what I’m here for.
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Myself Opinion People
I’ve learned, That when you’re in love, it shows.
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Learning Love Show Yourself
I’ve learned, That I can always pray for someone when I don’t have the strength to help him in some other way.
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Help Himself Learning Myself Prayer Strength Way
Small daily happenings make life spectacular. Start enjoying the small things in life!
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Gratitude Life Small Spectacular
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

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