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Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
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The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
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A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.
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When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
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People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.
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People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
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Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
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Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.
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Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.
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