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I've learned... That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am.

Andy Rooney

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Andy Rooney
Age: 92 †
Born: 1919
Born: January 14
Died: 2011
Died: November 4
Journalist
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War Correspondent
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New York
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Some people who hated Americans set out to kill a lot of us and they succeeded [on 9/11]....We're trying to protect ourselves with more weapons. We have to do it, I guess, but it might be better if we figured out how to behave as a nation in a way that wouldn't make so many people in the world want to kill us.
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The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food, and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it!
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I like ice hockey, but it's a frustrating game to watch. It's hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points.
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You really can't blame the military for wanting to go to war [in Iraq]. They've got all these new toys and they want to know whether they work or not.
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The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.
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There's nothing people like better than being asked an easy question. For some reason, we're flattered when a stranger asks us where Maple Street is in our hometown and we can tell him.
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The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature. If some of our great decorated trees had been grown in a remote forest area with lights that came on every evening as it grew dark, the whole world would come to look at them and marvel at the mystery of their great beauty.
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A woman over 30 will never wake you in the middle of the night to ask, What are you thinking?. She doesn't care what you think.
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By the time they're ready to be thrown away, most shoes are thoroughly comfortable
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If you get murdered because you go on a date with someone you met on the Internet, you probably deserved it.
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Flying is always an unpleasant experience. You wait an hour for every ten minutes you actually spend getting anywhere.
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Most college students are not as smart as most college presidents.
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No one likes the house next door to look worse or a lot better than his own.
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When there are starving people in the world, it seems wrong that so many of us Americans eat as much for entertainment as for nourishment.
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I've learned... That love, not time, heals all wounds.
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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 just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.
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... all of us talk faster than we listen.
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Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef.
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The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.
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