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Person-to-person, most people are honest.

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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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I've learned... That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.
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Most of us aren't that interested in getting rich- we just don't want to get poor.
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It would be a better world if everyone in it knew all the truth about everything.
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Democrats believe people are basically good but must be saved from themselves by the government. Republicans believe people are basically bad but they'll be okay if they're left alone.
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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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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
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You're better off missing a bus or an airplane once in a while than you are getting there too early all the time.
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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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Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.
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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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Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef.
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