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I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.

Lily Tomlin

The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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Moral People Photograph
I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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Beautiful Life Myself Pervert Thinking
But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.
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Cost Live Money People Reason
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
We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Care Company Phone
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
To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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Freedom Myself Sex Willing
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
What goes up must come down. But don’t expect it to come down where you can find it.
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Expectation Philosophy 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 know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what’s current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.
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Funny Hard Interest Talk 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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Form Intelligence Life Lose Play Share Space Win
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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Myself Success World Worry
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
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
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

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