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9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn’t really happened, but it has come closer.

Lily Tomlin

Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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Feeling Mindset Yourself
There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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Death Feeling Sex
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 have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves; I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.
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Collection Conscious Feeling Humor Vehicle Wonderful
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
The road to success is always under construction.
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Construction Inspirational Road Success
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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Collection One Liner Perspective Reality
If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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Hypocrisy Life Meaning
The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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Belief Better Possible Start World
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
Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic?
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Deep God Hypocrisy Prayer Talk
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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Love Question Yourself
Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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Name Top Yourself
We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Care Company Phone
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
I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.
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Existence Feeling Love Universe Wake Up
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
My politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.
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Education Empathy Growth Human Kind Myself Politics Religion
When I’ve had a meltdown, people will say to me, “Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor.”
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Failure Humor Myself People Talk Yourself
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
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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Hard Time Struggle Worst
Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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Leadership Reality Touch
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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Home Myself Teacher Thinking
If you can’t be direct, why be?
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Direct Yourself
I guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.
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Myself People Profit Thinking War
You can’t expect insights, even the big ones, to make you suddenly understand everything. But I figure: Hey it’s a step in the right direction if they leave you confused in a deeper way.
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Big Confusion Deep Direction Expectation Leaving Right Understand Way
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

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