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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

Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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Death Funny Myself Serious
Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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Complain Human Invention Language
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 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
I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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Culture Expression Myself Social Type
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
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
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
I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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Life Myself Reality Small Style
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
Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?
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Form Intelligence Life Universe Yourself
You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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Fear Thinking Yourself
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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Hard Time Struggle Worst
The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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Beautiful Life Myself Pervert Thinking

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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