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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.

Lily Tomlin

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
Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it’s imposssible to keep up.
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Impossible Myself News Reading
Remember we’re all in this alone.
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Alone One Liner Remember
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
No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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Change Enough Myself Transformation
It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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Change Comedy Humor Present Ridicule
I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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Hard Myself Try
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 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
You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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Fear Thinking Yourself
I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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Culture Expression Myself Social Type
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
When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
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God Ourselves Prayer Talk
I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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Beautiful Life Myself Pervert Thinking
I still believe that sex is dirty. It’s just that now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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Believe Dirty Myself Sex
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

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