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The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances.

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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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Albany
New York
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Do I have opinions that might piss people off? Yes - that's what I'm here for.
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I've learned... That the less time I have to work with, the more things I get done.
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Everyone hates war, everyone says.
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The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.
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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
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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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The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
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I obviously have a knack for getting on paper what a lot of people have thought and didn't realize they thought. And they say, 'Hey, yeah!' And they like that.
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I've learned that under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.
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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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Vegetarian: Indian word for lousy hunter.
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I've learned... that everyone you meet deserves to be greeted with a smile.
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Don't keep saying, I don't know where the time goes. It goes the same place it's always gone and no one has ever known where that is.
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One of my major shortcomings - I'm vindictive. I don't know why that is. Even in petty things in my life I tend to strike back. It's a lot more pleasurable a sensation than feeling threatened.
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I never understood retirement. What is the attraction of retirement? I go down there to Florida and look around and I said, my God, who wants this? Not me.
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No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear.
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Go to bed. Whatever you're staying up late for isn't worth it.
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One of the things we can be sure of over the July 4th weekend is that news reports will keep telling us how many of us are going to die in automobile accidents.
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Every one starts out being an atheist.
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Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.
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