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Numbers tend to give the impression that there's more order in the world than there is.

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Andy Rooney
Age: 92 †
Born: 1919
Born: January 14
Died: 2011
Died: November 4
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War Correspondent
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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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We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of lonliness. We need each other and we need to get away from each other. We need proximity and distance, conversation and silence. We almost always get more of each than we want at any one time.
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I spent my first 50 years trying to become known as a writer and the next 30 trying to avoid being famous. I walk down the street or go to a football game and people shout, 'Hey Andy'. I hate that.
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Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.
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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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Phyllis Schlafly speaks for all American women who oppose equal rights for themselves.
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It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.
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Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things they knew but did not know they knew. Or did not realize everyone else knew, too. This produces a warm sense of fellow feeling and is the best a writer can do.
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The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.
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Flying is always an unpleasant experience. You wait an hour for every ten minutes you actually spend getting anywhere.
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It's best to give advice in only two circumstances when it's requested, and when it's a life threatening situation.
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My own time is passing fast enough without some national game to help it along.
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I've learned... That you should never say no to a gift from a child.
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The best thing about a vacation is planning it.
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There is obviously a great human need for religion because life seems to be such a mystery.
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You really can't blame the military for wanting to go to war [in Iraq]. They've got all these new toys and they want to know whether they work or not.
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Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.
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Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.
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The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.
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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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