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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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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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When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools.
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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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I've learned... That you should never say no to a gift from a child.
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Did you ever notice that people who are good with a computer don't use it for much of anything except being good with a computer? They know all about information technology, but they don't have much interest in the information. I'm the opposite.
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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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I've learned ... that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.
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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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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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Almost all of us have an elevator or two in our lives somewhere. We wait for them, we ride on them. We're annoyed by the wait but pleased with the lift.
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Great teachers are usually a little crazy.
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Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.
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I've learned... That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.
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I've learned... That life is tough, but I'm tougher.
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The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances.
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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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Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.
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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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... all of us talk faster than we listen.
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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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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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