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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.

Lily Tomlin

If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
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Beautiful Hairs Library Woman
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
I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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Culture Expression Myself Social Type
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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Home Myself Teacher Thinking
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
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 that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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Myself Thinking 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
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
The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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Best Drugs Mindset One Liner Truth
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
Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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Ego Infinity One Liner Time Trip
Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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Help Myself Thinking Trouble Worst
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
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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