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George Carlin
Age: 71 †
Born: 1937
Born: May 12
Died: 2008
Died: June 22
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New York City
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George Denis Patrick Carlin
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Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.
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Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.
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I'm certainly a skeptic. I always quibble with people.
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I think we’re part of a greater wisdom that we will ever understand a higher order, call it what you want. Know what I call it? The Big Electron. It doesn’t punish, it doesn’t reward, it doesn’t judge at all. It just is.
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The dividend I get [from my compulsion] is the freedom to be totally disorderly in my dreamworld.
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