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

Lily Tomlin

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
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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Love Question Yourself
We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Care Company Phone
The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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Moral People Photograph
It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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Change Comedy Humor Present Ridicule
We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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Consumption Life Live People Style
I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
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Action Deep Inspirational Motivational Myself
The road to success is always under construction.
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Construction Inspirational Road Success
If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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Hypocrisy Life Meaning
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
We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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Ourselves Togetherness
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
If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.
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Cat Development Dog Sensitive Suffering Yourself
I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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Career Important Myself Regret
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
For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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Down Fast relief Slow Try
There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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Culture Fabric Skin
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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Hard Time Struggle Worst
The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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Best Drugs Mindset One Liner Truth
Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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Born Growth Myself Place
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
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Adult Country Election Hard Work
Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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Name Top Yourself
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
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
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
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
Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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History Listening People Repeat Start Stop

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

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