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I've learned .... That opportunities are never lost someone will take the ones you miss.

Andy Rooney

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Andy Rooney
Age: 92 †
Born: 1919
Born: January 14
Died: 2011
Died: November 4
Journalist
Screenwriter
War Correspondent
Writer
Albany
New York
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There are only a few safe targets left, just a few groups of people you can say anything negative about without getting in trouble for it. I've made a list of safe targets and I probably ought to stick to those. Politicians, for instance. You can say anything you want about them, and it doesn't matter how unfair you are. People seem to like it.
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We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.
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I've learned... That one should keep his words both soft and tender, because tomorrow he may have to eat them.
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Most of the people in the world are good and decent if you give them a chance to be.
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For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed hot woman of 40 +, there is a balding, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year-old waitress.
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Most college students are not as smart as most college presidents.
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Art is a by-product of an honest and successful attempt to do something well.
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The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
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A great many people do not have the right to their own opinion because they don't know what they are talking about.
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The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.
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In spite of some bad experiences, I'm a firm believer in the trial and error method of learning.
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The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances.
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The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
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In the United States alone, we spend seven times as much on war as on education. There's something wrong there. On this Memorial Day, we should certainly honor those who have died at war, but we should dedicate this day, not so much to their memory, but to the search for a way to end the idiocy of the wars that killed them.
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