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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.

Lily Tomlin

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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Myself Success World Worry
Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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Feeling Imagination Myself
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
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
I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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Beautiful Life Myself Pervert Thinking
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
What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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Audience Brain Knowledge Myself Praise Thinking
It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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Change Comedy Humor Present Ridicule
The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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Best Drugs Mindset One Liner Truth
There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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Culture Fabric Skin
You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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Fear Thinking Yourself
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
We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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Consumption Life Live People Style
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
I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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Myself Thinking Worry
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

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