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You can’t be a good writer without being a good thinker.

Andy Rooney

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
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
Vegetarian – that’s an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.
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Hunter Old Word
Civilization means conforming to a standard of behavior that may not seem natural to us.
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Behavior Civilization Confirm Natural
Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.
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Eat Soft Sweet Word Yourself
Familiar things are a comfort to us all.
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Calm Comfortable Peace
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
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
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
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 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’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
One of the sweetest things in life: a letter from a friend.
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Friendship Letter Life Oneself Sweet
We’re all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.
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Desire Fear Lonely Privacy
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

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