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I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.

Lily Tomlin

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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The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.
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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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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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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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Beautiful Life Myself Pervert Thinking
There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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Fear Thinking Yourself
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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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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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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I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.

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I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.

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