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With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.

Norm MacDonald

Most men will go farther to give advice than to follow their own opinion.
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Advice Man Opinion
The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.
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Life Philosophy Principle Solid Wisdom
You know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don’t care for him.
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Care Learning Man Myself
A great cause of evil in the world is that men seldom think themselves criminal if they offer the same injustice to others that has been successfully practiced on themselves.
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Crime Evil Greatness Injustice Man Practice Success Thinking World
Liberty, like health, appears most precious when lost.
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Appearance Health Liberty Lost Precious
A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.
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Device Equality Knowledge Person Practice
Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
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Philosophy Reason Shame Virtue
Scientists believe they may have discovered a primitive form of life on Jupiter’s moon Europa. That primitive form of life? You guessed it, Frank Stallone.
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Believe Discover Life Moon Yourself
When people told the audience that [Sam Kinison] was good, he was accepted after that.
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Acceptance Audience Goodness People
During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
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Condition Deserve Misfortune Ourselves
I don’t have any ambition.
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Ambition Myself One Liner
You can’t love your team without hating another team.
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Hate Love Rival Team Yourself
Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.
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Enjoyment Love Man Small Wind
I want you to buy this pit bull. This will protect your valuables.’ I don’t own anything very valuable. If I buy the pit bull, that would be the most valuable thing I own. I’d have to buy something to protect it then.
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Dog Funny Material Myself Protection Value
I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.
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Comedy Identity Joke Myself Perfection
With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.
NORM MACDONALD

Abandonment Ambitious Defeat Failure Occasion Philosophy Purpose

With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.

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