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I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.

Lily Tomlin

If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.
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Cat Development Dog Sensitive Suffering Yourself
There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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Culture Fabric Skin
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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Complain Deep Development Language Need Personal
Wouldn’t it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.
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Greatness Growth World
We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Care Company Phone
I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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Career Important Myself Regret
The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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Moral People Photograph
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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Home Myself Teacher Thinking
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
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Deep Race Trouble Win Yourself
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
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Adult Country Election Hard Work
Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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Leadership Reality Touch
If evolution was worth its salt, it should’ve evolved something better than ‘survival of the fittest.’ I think a better idea would be ‘survival of the wittiest.’ At least, that way, creatures that didn’t survive could’ve died laughing.
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Better Creature Death Evolution Laughter Survive Worth
For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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Down Fast relief Slow Try
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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Love Question Yourself
You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what’s current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.
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Funny Hard Interest Talk Yourself
9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn’t really happened, but it has come closer.
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Equality Money Pay People Work

I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.

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