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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.

Dick Cavett

In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
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Relative Remember Thinking Youth
I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.
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Disturb Label Lose Myself Problem Vulnerable
I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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Edge Guest Ice Myself
I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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Age Average Live Thinking
Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
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Assumption Finance Handle Himself People Treat
It’s lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It’s lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.
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Information News Youth
It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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Himself Person Rare
I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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Life Live Myself
My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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Brain Intelligence Myself
Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
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Better Depression Function Patience Sadness Suicide
I don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.
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Audience Different Myself Reaction Surprise Thinking
History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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Assurance Greatness History Subject Union
Depression – it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven’t been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it’s truly different.
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Category Depression Different Small True
There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing – nothing at all or in any way – be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.
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Form Law Online Weapon Yourself
Greatly talented performers don’t know – often spectacularly – what’s best for them, don’t know what their talents really are, and don’t know what’s just plain wrong for them.
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Best Dumb Great Talent Unknown Wrong
I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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Away Happiness Myself Stay

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