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Cancer research is a growth industry.

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George Carlin
Age: 71 †
Born: 1937
Born: May 12
Died: 2008
Died: June 22
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George Denis Patrick Carlin
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I think there's a little more attention to human needs than to property rights. But I don't think much of political activism. It's so shortsighted. Most people are interested in their own personal comfort. I've said that about environmentalists. I think they care about bike paths and places to park their Volvos, not the planet as an abstraction.
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Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in encouraging people to volunteer in their communities? It’s because volunteers work for no pay. Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time.
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How do you write zero in Roman numerals?
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Here’s a bumper sticker I’d like to see: “We are the proud parents of a child who’s self-esteem is sufficient that he doesn’t need us promoting his minor scholastic achievements on the back of our car.
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Most of the time people feel okay. Probably it's because at the moment they're not actually dying.
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Put two things together which have never been put together before, and some schmuck will buy it.
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Personally, emotionally, I'd rather divorce myself from the world than face the heartbreak of partial success. Because partial success implies overwhelming failure.
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Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.
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Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
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The ritual was very important to me: cleaning the pot, rolling the pot.
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There will be a rain dance Friday night, weather permitting!
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Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.
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I don't have hobbies hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free.
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As powerful as anyone may claim God to be, somehow he always needs money.
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Swimming is not a sport. Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That's just common sense!
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Soft rock music isn’t rock, and it ain’t music. It’s just soft.
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I don't get all choked up about yellow ribbons and American flags. I see them as symbols, and I leave them to the symbol-minded.
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I'm 63 now. But that's just 17 Celsius.
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The Class Clown album was done totally sober. I'd realized what a hell I'd made for myself and I cleaned up completely for three months. You can hear the clarity of my thinking and of my speech on that album.
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If all our national holidays were observed on Wednesdays, we could wind up with nine-day weekends.
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