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Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.

Norm MacDonald

Some men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent of their confidence.
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Confidence Easy Man Temptation Violence
Reason is always weak where prejudice is strong.
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Philosophy Prejudice Reason Strong Weakness
We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.
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Danger Fear Ourselves Philosophy Situation Suffering
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
This would have been a great game to watch if we didn’t have any money on it.
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Game Greatness Money
Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.
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Form Jealous Philosophy Sweet
Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it’s the only disease where you can win a bunch of money.
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Game Man Money Sick Win Yourself
All my life’s about is cracking up people and them cracking me up and trying not to think about dying. That doesn’t cost very much money.
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Death Life Money Myself People Thinking Try
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.
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Battle Courageous Defeat Failure Hero Himself Lost Man Sick
They say that if you’re afraid of homosexuals, it means that deep down inside you’re actually a homosexual yourself. That worries me because I’m afraid of dogs.
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Afraid Dog Funny Identity Myself Reality Worry
The joy a person is usually seen to express at the conversion of another to his opinion is seldom more than the impulse of egotistical satisfaction at being considered worthy of didactic imitation.
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Ego Expression Imitation Joy Opinion Person Satisfaction See Worth
I don’t really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.
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End Fantasy Friendship Love Order Politics Simplicity Sports World
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
In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers we daily escape.
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Adversity Dangerous Escape Reason Suffering Understand
Instead of loving your enemies, have no enemies to love.
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Choice Deep Enemy Love Philosophy
It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.
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Adversity Better Desire Destroy Necessary Prosperity Ruin

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