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I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.
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Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.
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I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.
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Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.
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We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.
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It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
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High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.
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Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.
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Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
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Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.
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The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
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Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.
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