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It's my pessimism that makes my optimism really shine!

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Hey, I Learned Something! Q: Which technology is older the wheel or the pillow? A: The pillow was already 1,000 years old, upon the first use of the wheel.

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“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. – Agatha Christie

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"We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us. – Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

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I read about the developers of the triangular and other irregularly shaped banners. They did pennants.

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“Our record with the Indians is going down in history. It is going to make us mighty proud of it in the future when our children of ten more generations read of what we did to them. Every man in our history that killed the most Indians has got a statue built for him…” –Cherokee comedian Will Rogers

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"It Sounded Better in..." It always sounds better in another language. That's why I always try to write in a language I don't understand!!!

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“If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.” - James Baldwin

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We learn about the "ENEMY!" Rebels, radicals, resistors, revolutionaries, terrorists, anti-government, agitators ... But what about the thinkers? Those who fight for human equity? What about the speakers of the simple truth who are threats only to the status quo?

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Wait, do you mean to say if I don't go big, I get to go home?

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Jonathan Munk, in Annie Hall. Written by Woody Allen, and Marshall Brickman. Directed by Allen. Released, 1977.

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”Because that’s the way it’s done.” “...always been.” “It’s the wealth that makes America great.” “The wealthy and powerful are always right.” “It’s just who we are, get with the program or get out of the way.”

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The Dansk (Danish) word for: urinate is urinere For pee - tisse For piss - pisse Shit is pis I feel better, now that's cleared up!

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AMENDMENT XIII • Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

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"It’s time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet." – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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...Hamsun, ...Descending a Staircase, and ...Rockne.

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I passed an electrician. Working. His radio was on somewhere. And he was whistling James Brown's 𝑮𝒆𝒕 𝑼𝒑 𝑶𝒇𝒇𝒂 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈, like a guy who doesn't care about whistling,.

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I have one too many redundant systems in place.

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I have one too many redundant systems in place.

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“You owe it to all of us to get on with what you're good at.” – W. H. Auden

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30% 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒔𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒏 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒃𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒓𝒅!!! Be sure to follow me for more of ... whatever that was.

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As I'm no longer 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑪𝒐𝒘𝒃𝒐𝒚, is anyone interested in a very specific work uniform ... gently used?

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Made me smile.

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How does one serve middle-age spread? Wine and crackers?

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I found this in my stuff the other day. I remember taking it, a while ago. I still like it.

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I’m Not Being Indoctrinated. Someone, or some event compelled me to share that.

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If it's all the same to you, I'd much rather learn from your mistakes.

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Here it is! We may all finally rest easy: An Etruscan Boar Vessel

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“We’re not out numbered, we’re out organized” —Malcolm X

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I’ve resolved to collect bologna, and american cheese, with mayonnaise, on white bread sandwiches!!! if you happen upon one, or you have one that you aren’t going to eat, please send it to me. I promise to properly catalog it. If you like, I will be glad to send you a receipt, for taxes.

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MFOTUS should start drinking, a lot and openly!!! It could begin to explain his behavior!!!

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I have to apologize for my part in the looting, and the setting Los Angeles on fire, from suburban Chicago.

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Complete the following sentence with the first thing that comes to mind: Since I've kicked my heroin habit, my bell choir ...

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I've decided to add "Pimp" to my resume.

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