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The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.

Andy Rooney

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
I’ve learned, That one should keep his words both soft and tender, because tomorrow he may have to eat them.
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Eat Learning Myself Word
One of the sweetest things in life: a letter from a friend.
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Friendship Letter Life Oneself Sweet
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there’s a 90% probability you’ll get it wrong.
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Chance Probability Time Wrong Yourself
I’ve learned That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world.
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Asleep Children Fall Feeling Learning Myself Peace World
Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
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Happiness Life Strike Yourself
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’ve learned, That it’s those small daily happenings that make life so spectacular.
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Appreciation Learning Life Myself Small
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
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
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
Don’t you hate it when, your suitcase is the last one off the airplane?
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Hate Last Luggage Oneself Yourself
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.
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Climb Happiness Live Mountain Top Yourself
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
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
Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.
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Enjoyment Growth Television Watch
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 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 we should be glad God doesn’t give us everything we ask for.
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God Happiness Learning Myself
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
I’ve learned, That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.
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Adult Block Children Father Simple Summer Walk Wonder
Women realize it’s not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!
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Buy Food Realization Woman Worth
I’ve learned that everyone you meet deserves to be greeted with a smile.
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Deserve Learning Myself Smile
The best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.
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Class Person Room World
Familiar things are a comfort to us all.
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Calm Comfortable Peace
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
My most serious character flaw is that I don’t deny myself much.
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Character Flaw Myself Serious

The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.

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