"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."
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"Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the Weather."
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"If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn’t the whole airplane made out of that stuff?"
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"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."
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"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
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"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else."
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"Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife."
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"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
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"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning."
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"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."
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"Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem!"
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"People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed."
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"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."
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"Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species-it is the tigress and lioness in you which tends to defend when attacked."
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"Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants."
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"If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?"
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"Common sense is not so common."
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"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me."
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"Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway."
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"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
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