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Most of us aren’t that interested in getting rich- we just don’t want to get poor.

Andy Rooney

We’re all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.
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Desire Fear Lonely Privacy
I’ve learned, That to ignore the facts does not change the facts.
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Change Fact Ignorance Learning Myself
Being kind is more important than being right.
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Important Kind Right
Would a real man get caught eating a twinkie?
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Eat Food Man Reality
I’ve learned that life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.
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End Fast Learning Myself Paper
The fastest thing computers do is go obsolete.
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Computer Fast Technology
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
You can’t be a good writer without being a good thinker.
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Goodness Poet Thinking Writer 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
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
Never trust the food in a restaurant on top of the tallest building in town that spends a lot of time folding napkins.
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Fold Food Restaurant Time Trust
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
My most serious character flaw is that I don’t deny myself much.
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Character Flaw Myself Serious
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 the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am.
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Growth Learning Myself Person Smart
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
Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn’t have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.
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Goodness Ideas Ourselves Prison Religious
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
I’ve learned, That it’s those small daily happenings that make life so spectacular.
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Appreciation Learning Life Myself Small
I’ve learned, That you should never say no to a gift from a child.
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Children Gift Learning Myself
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
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
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
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
Elephants and grandchildren never forget.
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Animal Forget Grandparents
The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.
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Greatness Mindset Virtue Way
I’ve learned, That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.
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Bitter Happiness Learning Myself

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