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Art is a by-product of an honest and successful attempt to do something well.

Andy Rooney

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Andy Rooney
Age: 92 †
Born: 1919
Born: January 14
Died: 2011
Died: November 4
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I've learned... That I can always pray for someone when I don't have the strength to help him in some other way.
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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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One day about 10 years ago the door to my office opened and who walked in but Bill Gates.... Seemed like a nice guy and has done more with his money than most billionaires. But that's as far as I want to go being kind to Bill Gates.
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The best thing about a vacation is planning it.
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Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.
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If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.
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I just wish this social institution [religion] wasnt based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs and myths directed toward proving something that isnt true.
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I've learned... That when you're in love, it shows.
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Great teachers are usually a little crazy.
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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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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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I've learned... That I wish I could have told my Mom that I love her one more time before she passed away.
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Before a kid learns how to use a computer that can solve mathematical problems, he or she should know how to do arithmetic without a computer.
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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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It would be a better world if everyone in it knew all the truth about everything.
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Space, like Switzerland, should be neutral.
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Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.
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It's best to give advice in only two circumstances when it's requested, and when it's a life threatening situation.
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