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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.

Lily Tomlin

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
Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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Death Funny Myself Serious
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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Collection One Liner Perspective Reality
Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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Feeling Imagination Myself
We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Care Company Phone
No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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Change Enough Myself Transformation
I worry about kids today – because of the sexual revolution, they’re going to grow up and never know what “dirty” means.
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Children Dirty Myself Revolution Sex Worry
If I had known what it would be like to have it all – I might have been willing to settle for less.
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Fame Myself Settle Willing
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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Complain Deep Development Language Need Personal
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
There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
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End Life Regret Right Sad Yourself
After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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One Liner Privacy
You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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Fear Thinking Yourself
What goes up must come down. But don’t expect it to come down where you can find it.
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Expectation Philosophy Yourself
I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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Myself Thinking Worry
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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