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If a picture is worth a thousand words, please paint me the Gettysburg Address.

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Leo Rosten
Age: 88 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 1
Died: 1997
Died: January 1
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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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The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.
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The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that, perhaps, is what makes him different from others.
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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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Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.
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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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What's green, hangs on a wall and whistles? [A Herring]
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Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precious.
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Satire is focused bitterness.
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Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.
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The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter.
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Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer.
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If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.
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Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.
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If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.
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Machines certainly can solve problems, store information, correlate, and play games - but not with pleasure.
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Her cooking suggested she had attended the Cordon Noir.
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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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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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I came to believe it not true that the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one. I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths. For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave.
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