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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.

Lily Tomlin

Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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Complain Human Invention Language
You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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Fear Thinking Yourself
The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.
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Company Earth Name Phone Standard
I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.
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Existence Feeling Love Universe Wake Up
The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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Moral People Photograph
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
I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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Hard Myself Try
Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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Alcohol Control Drugs Exercise People
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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Complain Deep Development Language Need Personal
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
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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Collection One Liner Perspective Reality
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
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
Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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Leadership Reality Touch
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

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