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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.

Lily Tomlin

Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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History Listening People Repeat Start Stop
Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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Leadership Reality Touch
I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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Career Important Myself Regret
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
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
The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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Best Drugs Mindset One Liner Truth
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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Hard Time Struggle Worst
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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Love Question Yourself
Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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Place Sorry Yourself
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
Truth is, I’ve always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.
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Difference Integrity Myself Past Truth
The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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Belief Better Possible Start World
Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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Name Top Yourself
The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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Moral People Photograph
What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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What goes up must come down. But don’t expect it to come down where you can find it.
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Expectation Philosophy Yourself

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.

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