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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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A cat's idea of a 'good time' is to kill something.
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The third rule of life is this: Everything you buy today is smaller, more expensive, and not as good as it was yesterday.
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My advice is not to wait to be struck by an idea. If you're a writer, you sit down and damn well decide to have an idea. That's the way to get an idea.
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Men wake up aroused in the morning. We can't help it. We just wake up and we want you. And the women are thinking, How can he want me the way I look in the morning? It's because we can't see you. We have no blood anywhere near our optic nerve.
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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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Civilization means conforming to a standard of behavior that may not seem natural to us.
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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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Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
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Most of us believe everyone has a right to his own opinion - as long as it agrees with ours.
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Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.
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Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.
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In the futile attempts we all make to tidy up our lives and our surroundings, nothing is more difficult than throwing out a book.
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If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
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Don't you hate it when...your suitcase is the last one off the airplane?
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Elephants and grandchildren never forget.
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Those of us who don't have a party affiliation ought to be able to register under the heading Confused.
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There are more beauty parlors than there are beauties.
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We should change our attitude toward the United Nations. There has to be some power in the world superior to our own. We should not have attacked Iraq without the okay of the United Nations. Now we have to live with that mistake. We're living with it, and too many of our guys are dying with it.
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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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Most of the people in the world are good and decent if you give them a chance to be.
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