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I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
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I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
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Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.
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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
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To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.
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The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
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I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.
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