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Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.
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You can only fall in love six times in your life. Choose wisely.
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Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.
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You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.
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Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.
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It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.
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What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.
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There's a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream.
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Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.
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When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.
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When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?
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Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky.
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You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.
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Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.
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