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American closets are filled with once-worn clothes that got a bad review from a friend on their first appearance.

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Andy Rooney
Age: 92 †
Born: 1919
Born: January 14
Died: 2011
Died: November 4
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We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.
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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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A cat's idea of a 'good time' is to kill something.
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The teacher who knows the most about a subject isn't necessarily the one who can teach it best.
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We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a few years but it isn't smart for them to continue waiting all their lives for him to come down the chimney with something wonderful. Santa Claus and God are cousins.
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I can't choose how i feel. But i can choose what I do about it.
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Once you pass forty, a dime isn't worth bending over to pick up if you drop one.
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You're almost always better off keeping your mouth shut, but don't let that stop you from popping off.
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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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Finding the tool is often half the battle.
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I never get over feeling bad about tearing open a beautifully wrapped present. It takes ten seconds to destroy a work of art that took someone ten minutes to accomplish.
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I'm in a position of feeling secure enough so that I can say what I think is right and if so many people think it's wrong that I get fired, well, I've got enough to eat.
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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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When I write, I use an Underwood #5 made in 1920. Someone gave me an electric typewriter, but there's no use pretending you can use machinery that thinks faster than you do. An electric typewriter is ready to go before I have anything to say.
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New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't new at all.
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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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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 of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly. ~ (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist.
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Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.
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If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
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