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The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.

Lily Tomlin

Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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Creation Expression Type Way
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
Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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Name Top Yourself
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
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
If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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Hard Inspirational Motivational Perspective Soft Try
I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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Culture Expression Myself Social Type
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
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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Collection One Liner Perspective Reality
I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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Hard Myself Try
Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket – The road to success is always under construction.
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Construction Hands Ladder Road Success
If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well viewed.
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Book Hypocrisy Reading View Yourself
We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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Consumption Life Live People Style
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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Complain Invention Language Man Satisfaction
To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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Freedom Myself Sex Willing
The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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