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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.

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
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
Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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Alcohol Control Drugs Exercise People
Having a real public outlet is how you imprint something for yourself. It’s just a matter of timing. It’s like you’ve marked your territory.
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Place Public Reality Time Yourself
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
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Deep Race Trouble Win Yourself
If you can’t be direct, why be?
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Direct Yourself
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
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
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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Better Cry Feeling Happiness Laughter Price Sad
I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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Life Myself Reality Small Style
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
Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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Leadership Reality Touch
Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
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Afraid Failure Inspirational Missing Opportunity
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
Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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Death Funny Myself Serious

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