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I've learned... that we should be glad God doesn't give us everything we ask for.

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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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New York
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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 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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It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often and that passes for good on television.
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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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Vegetarian: Indian word for lousy hunter.
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I've learned .... That opportunities are never lost someone will take the ones you miss.
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All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.
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All economists should be locked up until they admit that they don't know what they're talking about.
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A great many people do not have the right to their own opinion because they don't know what they are talking about.
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The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.
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For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed hot woman of 40 +, there is a balding, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year-old waitress.
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New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't new at all.
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Phyllis Schlafly speaks for all American women who oppose equal rights for themselves.
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Would a real man get caught eating a twinkie?
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Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.
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I've learned... That when you're in love, it shows.
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Conservatives are more religious than liberals--although there is no evidence that they're nicer people because of it.
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Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way, one at a time.
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I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.
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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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