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Leo Rosten
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Leo Rosten
Age: 88 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 1
Died: 1997
Died: January 1
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The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the talents that God has given you for the betterment of others.
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Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.
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Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer.
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Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty, devoid of anguish and wonder and pain? … The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.
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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
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You can learn much about life from a checker game: surrender one to take two don't make two moves at one time move up, not down and when you reach the top, you may move as you like.
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I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
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Thinking is harder work than hard work.
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Satire is focused bitterness.
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You understand people better if you look at them-no matter how old or impressive or important they may be-as if they were children. For most men never mature they simply grow taller.
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Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precious.
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Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
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The first printed mention of bagels... is to be found in the Community Regulations of Kracow, Poland, for the year 1610 which stated that bagels would be given as a gift to any woman in childbirth.
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If a picture is worth a thousand words, please paint me the Gettysburg Address.
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The hardest part of growing up is learning how to wait
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The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter.
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The love of money is the source of an enormous amount of good the fact that the good is a by-product of the selfish pursuit of riches has nothing to do with its indisputable value.
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What's green, hangs on a wall and whistles? [A Herring]
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Where there is too much, something is missing.
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In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
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