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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
Screenwriter
War Correspondent
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Albany
New York
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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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Most of the people in the world are good and decent if you give them a chance to be.
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I am an atheist... I don't understand religion at all. I'm sure I'll offend a lot of people by saying this, but I think it's all nonsense.
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I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.
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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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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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I often pass a farm with cows grazing in the field and I think to myself how terrible it is that human beings grow other animals just to kill them and eat them. Most of us think of vegetarians as nuts and I'm not a vegetarian but I wouldn't be surprised if we came to a time in 50 or 100 years when civilized people everywhere refused to eat animals.
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Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.
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In a conversation, keep in mind that you're more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is.
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Art is a by-product of an honest and successful attempt to do something well.
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the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.
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