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the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.

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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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Numbers are the most certain things we have.
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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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People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
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I've learned.... That when you plan to get even with someone, you are only letting that person continue to hurt you... More
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I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.
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Go to bed. Whatever you're staying up late for isn't worth it.
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Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.
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Art is a by-product of an honest and successful attempt to do something well.
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All economists should be locked up until they admit that they don't know what they're talking about.
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I've learned... That life is tough, but I'm tougher.
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