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Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.

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Ever see this? It’s a homeless guy but he’s got a dog… The dog’s really thrilled with this idea. The dog’s going, Hey pal, I can do this by myself pretty well. The longest walk in the world you got me on here.
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Dog Friendship Funny Home Ideas Man See Thrill Walk Yourself
Note to self: no matter how bad life gets, there’s always beer.
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Alcohol Bad Drink Hard Time Life
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
$Norm MacDonald Quote - In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That’s what I liked about math. You could figure it out, and the teacher couldn’t have a stupid opinion about it.$

In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That’s what I liked about math. You could figure it out, and the teacher couldn’t have a stupid opinion about it.
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Mathematics Opinion Stupidity Subject Teacher Yourself
You can’t love your team without hating another team.
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Hate Love Rival Team Yourself
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
A lot of writers come from Harvard and such, and are rich, and they write under the misapprehension that poor people are stupid. So when they do write them, they are hillbillies or rednecks or Christian idiots.
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Education Idiot People Poor Rich Stupidity Writing
If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.
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Desire Praise Yourself
Comedy is surprises, so if you’re intending to make somebody laugh and they don’t laugh, that’s funny.
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Comedy Funny Laughter Surprise Yourself
It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
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Fortune Policy Wasted Time
The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.
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Beginning Knowledge Mistake Philosophy Wisdom
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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Abandonment Ambitious Defeat Failure Occasion Philosophy Purpose
The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.
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Adversity Friendship Oneself Prosperity Reason True
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
Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.
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Action Change Practice Principle Thinking
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
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.
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Communication Fools Practice Report Understand
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
The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a different reading.
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Different Moral Nation Reading
We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.
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Danger Fear Ourselves Philosophy Situation Suffering
Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.
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Form Jealous Philosophy Sweet
Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
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Better Ignorance Knowledge Philosophy
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
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
I can’t be naturalistic enough to make it sound real. So instead, I just wander around aimlessly knowing that I’ll be funny enough with stream of consciousness until I get to the actual explosively funny part.
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Enough Funny Myself Natural Reality Sound
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
During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
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Condition Deserve Misfortune Ourselves

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