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I'm already suspicious of anyone who thinks he or she is smart enough to be president. You'd have to have some ego to believe that about yourself.

Andy Rooney

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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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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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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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Conservatives are more religious than liberals--although there is no evidence that they're nicer people because of it.
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We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.
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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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I've learned... That I can always pray for someone when I don't have the strength to help him in some other way.
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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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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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I've learned... That one should keep his words both soft and tender, because tomorrow he may have to eat them.
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Phyllis Schlafly speaks for all American women who oppose equal rights for themselves.
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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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Before a kid learns how to use a computer that can solve mathematical problems, he or she should know how to do arithmetic without a computer.
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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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The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances.
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