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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

Lily Tomlin

We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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Believe Freedom Hands Man Reason Sex Walk
I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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Beautiful Life Myself Pervert Thinking
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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Myself Success World Worry
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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Complain Invention Language Man Satisfaction
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
There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
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End Life Regret Right Sad 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
My politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.
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Education Empathy Growth Human Kind Myself Politics Religion
I worry about kids today – because of the sexual revolution, they’re going to grow up and never know what “dirty” means.
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Children Dirty Myself Revolution Sex Worry
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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Big Confusion Deep Direction Expectation Leaving Right Understand Way
Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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Leadership Reality Touch
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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Collection One Liner Perspective Reality
The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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Best Drugs Mindset One Liner Truth
When I’ve had a meltdown, people will say to me, “Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor.”
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Failure Humor Myself People Talk Yourself
People hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.
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Acceptance Creation Kind Myself People
The road to success is always under construction.
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Construction Inspirational Road Success
There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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Culture Fabric Skin
Remember we’re all in this alone.
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Alone One Liner Remember
We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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Ourselves Togetherness
Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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Place Sorry Yourself
I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
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Animal Eat Food Funny Myself
No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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Change Enough Myself Transformation
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
Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic?
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Deep God Hypocrisy Prayer Talk
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
If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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Hard Inspirational Motivational Perspective Soft Try
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

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