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I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.

Dick Cavett

If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
DICK CAVETT

Children Parents Yourself
It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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Himself Person Rare
Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.
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Site Try Weapon Wish
Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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Complex Curiosity Dreams Protection Weird
Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.
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Comic Court Early Known Rank Rough Survive
Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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Dirty Food Letter Mindset Word
I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
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Appreciation Art Form Greatness Wonderful Writing
I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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Away Happiness Myself Stay
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
Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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Language Leadership Thinking
It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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Amount Class Union
I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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Love Myself People Story
Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that’s too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.
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Anxiety Born Ego Gift Strong Writing
To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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Holiday Night Time Traffic
Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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Comic Gift God Moments Report
I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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Associate Entertainment Myself Television

I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.

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