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

Lily Tomlin

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
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
We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Care Company Phone
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
No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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Change Enough Myself Transformation
In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone
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Alone Feeling Heart Mindset Myself Night
If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.
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Cat Development Dog Sensitive Suffering Yourself
The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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Moral People Photograph
The road to success is always under construction.
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Construction Inspirational Road Success
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
Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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Name Top Yourself
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
Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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Death Funny Myself Serious
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
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Adult Country Election Hard Work
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
Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it’s imposssible to keep up.
LILY TOMLIN

Impossible Myself News Reading

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