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A caution about the ppl you wrong today

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Always remember that the toes you step on today may be attached to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow.

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What’s then nuance about social media use?

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There’s a fine line between social media and wasting your fucking life away

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A dream for old age.. by Atticus

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I aspire to be an old man, with an old wife, laughing at old jokes, from a wild youth

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4
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LA Gays in October

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Halloween is the only thing that makes Weho gayer

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Call out non accepting heteros

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Youre so you’re homophobic you eat bananas sideways

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What are States Rights really…

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“States rights” is always code for taking away rights

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Ppl & essential oils

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People who think essential oils are essential by Bill Maher

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8
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Most important words in a relationship?

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The three magic words in a relationship aren’t I love you but let it go by Bill Maher

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Chinese saying about age

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You are as old as your spine

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Why should you ask questions?

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He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever

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Someone has a problem that can be paid out of

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Problems that are solved with money aren’t problems

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Quip about marketers

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Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department

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13
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Ironic quip on teamwork

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Teamwork is an individual skill

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14
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Cutesy saying about engagement in team decisions

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If you don’t weigh in you don’t buy in

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15
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What did einstein say about insanity?

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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results

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What did George bernard shaw say about ‘miscommunications’

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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place

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WHat did Ghandi say about Christianity

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I like your Christ. I don’t like your Christians

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18
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A perspective on whether gays should be… and who said it?

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Biology enables. Culture forbids

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What did Horowitz say about pianists?

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There are three kinds of pianists: Jewish pianists, homosexual pianists, and bad pianists.

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20
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On being law abiding, or not

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I live by morals, I don’t live by laws. Laws are made by assholes

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21
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Wisdom about accepting grief

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Grief demands an answer but sometimes there isn’t one

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22
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Someone broke a promise because of x, y, z

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The nature of promises is that they stay immune to change in circumstances

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23
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What’s wrong with common sense?

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The only problem with common sense is that it is so common

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24
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On history repeating

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History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes

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25
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What’s a clever way to talk about mathematicians

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Mathemologist

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26
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A joke about Monopoly

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Is it wrong that only one company makes monopoly?

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27
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Skipping rocks shower thought

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All of the best skipping rocks are in the middle of the lake

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28
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Ironic prayer for a non believer

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Thank you god for making me an Atheist

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29
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On early stage of your career paying dividends

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For the first ten years, you work for reputation. After, reputation works for you.

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30
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A vulgar vagina reference

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Bearded axe wound

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31
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A joke about Groundhog day

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They should announce a sequel to groundhog day, and release the same movie

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32
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Vulgar, sex-related retort to “what time is it”

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It’s fuck o’clock

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33
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Cutesy condom slogan

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Don’t be silly wrap that willy

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34
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How seriously to take board games?

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If you’re not prepared to lose every friend you have over a board game, you’re not playing hard enough.

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35
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A reframing for someone that’s mumbling

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Im not slurring my words, I’m talking cursive and its elegant

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36
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A gross wisdom about alternative sex when PMS

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When the Red Rivers flowing, take the dirt road home

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37
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A pesimistic take on learning to love something over time

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Growing to love something is simply slowly forgetting what you dislike about it

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38
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On starting things and then maintaining

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There’s no such thing as planting a garden that doesn’t need weeding

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39
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On inner peace with what you’ve got

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Being satisfied with what you already have is far more important than wanting more of what you have

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40
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A spin on forcing a solution to any problem

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if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

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A wise saying about travel effect on you vs stomach

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Travel broadens the mind but loosens the bowels

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42
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Underatking an impossible task

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Boil the ocean

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43
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An absurd example of the expectations once married

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Before getting married, I didn’t know u could put a carton of milk in the fridge the wrong way

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44
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“It’ll never happen!”

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There is a lot of time between now and never

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45
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On where opportunities come from

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It’s not so much about finding opportunities as it is about creating them

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46
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What do Frienships require

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Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith!

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47
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Being single is a bummer cuz..

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When you’re so single that you don’t have anyone to drunk text

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48
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Compatibiliy in relationships

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Compatibility is an achievement of love not a precondition

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49
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A quip on finally getting w your dream

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The disappointment of sleeping with your fantasy

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50
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Moist

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Moister than an oyster

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51
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A wisdom about how hard peace is to accomplish

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Peace is harder won than war

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52
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For someone wanting to take down capitalism

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Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism

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53
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How should I think of my purpose in career

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Try not to become a person of success but a person of value

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54
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Good intention..

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Good intention isn’t good enough

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55
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A country is..

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A country is not just what it does. It is also what it tolerated

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56
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Dont judge a book by its cover’ …

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The only purpose for the cover of a book is so you can judge the book

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57
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On readyness for an opportunity

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Opportunity doesn’t always come at an opportune time

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58
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A cheap person has..

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Short arms and deep pockets

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59
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What’s the best spice?

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Hunger is the best spice

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60
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Jews x smarts

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Jewish love affair with the intellect

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61
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3pm is..

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3 o’clock is too early and too late to do anything

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62
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Friendship is like…

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Friendship is like peeing your pants. Everyone can see it but only you can feel its warmth

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63
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Tell someone annoying & heated to shut up

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Ok, calm down, take a deep breath…and hold it for about 20 minutes

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64
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Someone upset at my joke

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It’s a joke, not a dick. don’t take it so hard.

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65
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My routine…

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My daily routine: get up, be amazing, go to bed.

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66
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A sassy declining when asked to do something

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It’s not on my Bucket List.

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67
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Asking for space with sarcasm

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Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.

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68
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Sassy goodbye after a casual eve (dinner party)

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I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.

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69
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A witty remark about someone stupid that likes to talk

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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech

70
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An old friend of mine

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An old friend of mine, actually dead. As old as it gets really

71
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Savings is…

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Savings is just consumerism needlessly postponed

72
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Revenge is..

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Revenge is the best revenge

73
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On applying too complex a solution for a problem

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You dont hammer in a nail with a violin

74
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Happy endings..

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Happy endings are just stories that haven’t finished yet

75
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Martyrs

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Don’t pity the martyr, he likes his job

76
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Luck is…

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Luck is the residue of design

77
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Why should you be arounded smart people

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Chance favors the connected mind

78
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Taxation is…

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Taxation is always a form of theft

79
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A cynic is..

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cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

80
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Certainty is..

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Certainty is the enemy of growth

81
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What do we start to hate with middle age?

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The hatred of mirrors that develops in middle age

82
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Pros of settling down

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It’s the chains we choose that set us free.

83
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Culture vs strategy

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Culture eats strategy for breakfast

84
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A spin on not actually knowing GDP

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Guess Domestic Product (context: the era of Coronavirus market uncertainty)

85
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Vegetarians aren’t…

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Vegetarians aren’t animal lovers. They’re plant haters

86
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A fork in the road…

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When you come to a fork in the road, take it

87
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Patriotism…

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Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel

88
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An analogy meaning that some things just take time

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9 women can’t deliver a baby in 1 month (analogy for coding)

89
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Reflect on the state of minority rights today (LGBT, women)

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Gays want kids and women want rights. What’s going on with the world?

90
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What did Ghandi say about revenge

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An eye for an eye leaves for the whole world blind

91
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The irony of what/when the young and old have

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Youth is wasted on the young and wisdom is wasted on the old

92
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A joke about microwaving 45 seconds

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I microwave things for 44 not 45 seconds. For Obama

93
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Why should you write things down?

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Write things down! The shortest pencil is longer than the longest memory

94
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A dramatic way to say the last recent bit of time has been rough

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Its been a rough couple years these last 2 weeks

95
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A witty remark about someone who doesn’t take orders

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Your inability to follow a command is matched only by siri

96
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Facts about men liking size

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95% of men love big women. The other 5% like extra big women

97
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Dramatic Yes, as Alice in Wonderland themed

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Does the tin man have a sheet metal c***

98
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A cheesy saying about living / breaths we take

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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the number of moments that take our breath away

99
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A saying about democracy vs violence

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The reason we have ballots is so we don’t have to deal with bullets

100
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On chasing happiness

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Happiness is in the Pursuit, not the Possession

101
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What forces run the world?

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Love and hunger runs the world

102
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On humans wanting to be drunk…

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Humans are born with a blood alcohol .05% too low

103
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A summary of baby > death

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Birth is agony life is hard death is cruel

104
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A russian saying about cheap healthcare

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Лечиться даром это даром лечиться

105
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Russian saying for the subtle shift from one extreme to another

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От великова до смешного один шаг

106
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What’s the french saying about obligations with privilege

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Noblesse Oblige

107
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Failure..

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Failure is better than never trying at all

108
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Describe something clumsy..

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“….. that trombone slide of a sentence”

109
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A fancy way of saying something is special among others

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In this blizzard of . stands out

110
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Why do people vote?

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People don’t vote to say thank you. They vote to say fuck you

111
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Motivational slap about procrastinating when you say “some day”

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There are 7 days in the week. Some day is not one of them

112
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A religiousy name for weed

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The devil’s lettuce = weed

113
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Why is it called “gross pay”

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It’s called gross pay because it’s disgusting to see how much money youd make before taxes

114
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What did Ghandi say about speaking up

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Speak only if it improves upon silence

115
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Feminism vs Lesbianism

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Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice. Schwules museum

116
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What’s a real apology?

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Changed behavior is the only real apology

117
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Russian sarcasm about being underpaid

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Они делают вид что они нам платят а мы делаем вид что мы работаем

118
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Should you wear ugly shoes?

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Life is too short for ugly shoes

119
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Drugs are…

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Drugs = politically disfavored intoxicants

120
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“What’s your perfect first date”

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What’s your perfect first date? - January 1st!

121
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Wisdom about buying cheap

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Buy cheap, buy twice

122
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On receiving gifts

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Don’t look a gift horse in its mouth

123
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Russian saying about goodie two shoes

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Тот кто не курит и не пьёт то и здоровеньким помрёт

124
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Russian saying about sober inefficiency

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Без пол-литра не разобраться

125
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Health issues resulting from poverty is a condiiton known as

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Shit life syndrome - UK and US term for health issues based on ~poverty

126
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Another way to describe 2 truths and a lie

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2 truths and a lie = Humble brag. Humble brag. Opportunity for a lie

127
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Religion is the… (Karl marx)

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Religion is the opium of the people

128
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What would an entitled American with self awareness say abroad

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I suffer from American exceptionalism

129
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A wit about liking ‘reality’

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Reality is an acquired taste

130
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What’s the price of love

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Grief is the price we pay for love

131
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“What’s your love language”

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My love language is english

132
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A socialist view on children

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Children are future taxpayers

133
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A twist on dual income

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Two incomes r better than 1. That’s why my partner better have 2 jobs.

134
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Russian joke on money bringing happiness

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Счастье не в деньгах а в их количестве

135
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What’s wrong with worrying

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Worrying means you suffer twice

136
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Why is Argentina different than the US?

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Argentiva vs [US/UK/etc]: we’re different. You have jobs, we have more attractive people

137
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What to tell new parents

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Congrats on the baby. I hope you like it

138
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Great minds think alike…

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Great minds think alike but fools seldom differ

139
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Should you use or protect your nice things?

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Tools, not jewels

140
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How to say yes, with a A weird naturey spin

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does a duck w a stiffie drag weeds?

141
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Douchey way to procrastinate

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muscle shirt today but muscles tomorrow

142
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Worrying is like..

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Worry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere

143
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Love is more than physical attraction (Antoine de Saint Exupery)

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Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward in the same direction

144
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On how to handle people showing their true colors

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When someone shows you who they are, believe them

145
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Russian ‘when pigs fly’

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Когда рак на горе свистнет

146
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To those who say the future can’t be predicted

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The future is easy to predict. Getting it right is the hard part

147
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Russian saying to stop procrastinating

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работа это не волк в лес не убежыт

148
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For someone waiting to get lucky

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The harder you work the luckier you get

149
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Defend puns

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Puns are the lowest form of humor when you don’t think of it first

150
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Labels..

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Labels serve us, they don’t define us

151
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“How jewish are you?”

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I’m not a practicing Jew. I’ve perfected it

152
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It’s easier to maintain ownership

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Possession is 9/10s the law

153
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What’s Kombucha?

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Kombucha is Gatorade for ppl who do yoga

154
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Love at first sight..

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Love at first sight is just desire

155
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There are X europes

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There are two Europe’s. Vodka and beer

156
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What is an ‘opinion’

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance

157
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Marx cynic example of capitalism

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Time was invented by clock companies to sell more clocks

158
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Joke about heaven vs hell

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Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company

159
Q

Defend gays with god’s pairs

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God gave us 2 eyes 2 ears 2 arms but only 1 dick. Why? Cuz its up to us to find the missing pair

160
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On my frequent ails

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I don’t get sick. I stay sick

161
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A much too snobby way to say don’t stay in school

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Endless education can be a filibuster for the rest of life.

162
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On happy go lucky privileged people..

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A zest for life only someone with a generational wealth could possess

163
Q

What did Buffet say about procrastination?

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Don’t save sex for old age

164
Q

On art’s lifecyle

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Art is never finished. Only abandoned

165
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On going to bed with hard news

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We should always save pain for daylight

166
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Preface for not wanting to explain something

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For reasons that are too boring…

167
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Deadlines…

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“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”

168
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On being lazy

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“Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.”

169
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Self deprecating dismissal of joining orgs

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“I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.”

170
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A pessisimist is…

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“A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.”

171
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If the grass is greener.. don’t fall for it

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“If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.”

172
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Prejudice…

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“Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.”