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

Andy Rooney

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
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
When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.
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Age Fresh Myself Wait
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
All economists should be locked up until they admit that they don’t know what they’re talking about.
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Admit Economist Talk
Nothing in fine print is ever good news.
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Goodness News Print
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 had one typewriter for 50 years, but I have bought seven computers in six years. I suppose that’s why Bill Gates is rich, and Underwood is out of business.
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Business Computer Myself Writing
It would be a better world if everyone in it knew all the truth about everything.
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Better Truth World
If you get murdered because you go on a date with someone you met on the Internet, you probably deserved it.
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Date Deserve Internet Meet Murder Yourself
The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.
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Greatness Mindset Virtue Way
Don’t rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.
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Hands Head Rule World Yourself
Would a real man get caught eating a twinkie?
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Eat Food Man Reality
I’ve learned that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.
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Fall In Love Learning Myself Perfection
You can’t be a good writer without being a good thinker.
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Goodness Poet Thinking Writer Yourself
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
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
People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
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Acceptance Believe Fact General People Truth
All of us talk faster than we listen.
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Fast Listening Ourselves Talk
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
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
We’re all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.
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Desire Fear Lonely Privacy
Don’t keep saying, “I don’t know where the time goes.” It goes the same place it’s always gone and no one has ever known where that is.
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Place Time Unknown
I’ve learned, That when you’re in love, it shows.
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Learning Love Show Yourself
Unfortunately, propaganda works.
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One Liner Work
Familiar things are a comfort to us all.
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Calm Comfortable Peace
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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