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The most frequent cause of regret for what we have done is because its effects interfere with what we would do.

Norm MacDonald

There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood.
NORM MACDONALD

Communication Fools Practice Report Understand
I got my computer. The great thing about the computer is that you only need enough money to buy a computer and some food, and you’re all right. I don’t have to go to premières.
NORM MACDONALD

Computer Enough Food Money Myself Need Right Technology Yourself
Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.
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Correct Discover Improvement Mistake Yourself
As evacuation eases the body, so occasional ejectment of passion seems to appease the agonies of the soul, and dispose to tranquility the agitations of the heart.
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Body Heart Occasion Passion Soul Tranquility
Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.
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Behavior Hate Love Mental People Violence
There are two things which a man should scrupulously avoid: giving advice that he would not follow, and asking advice when he is determined to pursue his own opinion.
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Advice Avoid Determination Distance Himself Man Opinion Pursue
I generally have a real strong idea or a strong punchline, and I just try to get to it by rambling around, as I don’t like to memorize words.
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Ideas Memories Myself Reality Strong Word
We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.
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Danger Fear Ourselves Philosophy Situation Suffering
If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.
NORM MACDONALD

Desire Praise Yourself
All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.
NORM MACDONALD

Business Confidence Disappointment Future Learning People Weakness
I don’t know the difference between a hippie and a hipster but, it’s fun to watch either one of them get beat up.
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Difference Fight Fun Myself See
It is necessary to be tolerant, in order to be tolerated.
NORM MACDONALD

Deep Necessary Tolerance
Back in the old days, a man could just get sick and die. Now they have to wage a battle. So my Uncle Bert is waging a courageous battle, which I’ve seen, because I go and visit him. And this is the battle: he’s lying in the hospital bed, with a thing in his arm, watching Matlock on the TV.
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Battle Day Death Funny Hospital Man Myself Old Sick
Instead of loving your enemies, have no enemies to love.
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Choice Deep Enemy Love Philosophy
When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that’s a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.
NORM MACDONALD

Battle Courageous Defeat Failure Hero Himself Lost Man Sick
Few people love with the violence they hate.
NORM MACDONALD

Hate Love People Philosophy Violence

The most frequent cause of regret for what we have done is because its effects interfere with what we would do.

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