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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.

Lily Tomlin

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
The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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Belief Better Possible Start World
What if it’s boring – or if it’s not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.
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Boredom Hide Reveal Worst
Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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Complain Human Invention Language
Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest – then we can all die laughing.
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Death Laughter Smart Survive Work
Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.
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Form Intelligence Life Lose Play Share Space Win
Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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Alcohol Control Drugs Exercise People
Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?
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Form Intelligence Life Universe Yourself
Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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Creation Expression Type Way
If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
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Beautiful Hairs Library Woman
For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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Down Fast relief Slow Try
I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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Life Myself Reality Small Style
Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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Help Myself Thinking Trouble Worst
No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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Change Enough Myself Transformation
Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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History Listening People Repeat Start Stop
Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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Place Sorry Yourself

After all, in private, we’re all misfits.

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