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Teach a man to fish and he'll still vote for the guy that gives him a fish.
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Too many people are smart enough to be angry, but not smart enough to be successful.
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Haircuts are a great economic indicator. In bad times, it’s every 8 weeks. In good, it’s every 6. I go every 3 weeks.
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There was a time when we sent the undesirables to islands. Now you have to buy an island just to get away from them.
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Whenever someone asks how I’m doing, I usually just lie and say ‘good’, even though I’m doing a lot better than that.
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Darwin had not considered a world where smart people have fewer babies, and dumb people have more.
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I don’t post on Facebook. It’s more important for me to have a great life than it is for people to think I have one.
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Work hard. Eat right. Exercise. Don’t drink too much. And only buy what you can afford. It’s not rocket science.
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I’d watch a TV show where teens describe their most popular Instagrams to WW2 veterans.
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The fact that most people are too stupid to know how dumb they really are is the fabric holding our society together.
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All cats are libertarians. Completely dependent on others but fully convinced of their own independence.
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Talent is the only thing that stands between most people and their dreams.
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Checking your phone after someone else pulls out their phone is the yawn of our generation.
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Do what you love’ is great advice for making 30k a year.
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The most and least successful people all share the same trait: thinking they’re never wrong.
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Statistically speaking, you shouldn’t worry about what your first wife’s mother looks like.
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If her first phone was an iPhone, she’s too young for you, bro.
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Some people assume I am quiet, boring, or shy, without ever realizing that I just don’t like them.
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Some of the best moments in life are the ones you can’t tell anyone about.
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Relationships are like a seesaw. If one of you gets too bored or too fat, the fun is over.
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I’m not debating the issue. I’m just trying to explain why I am right.
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Money can’t buy happiness but it solves 95% of the problems that make you unhappy.
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If you’re not dead to at least one person, you’re not living right.
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Most people think freedom means getting a bigger cut of somebody else’s money.
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I would agree with you, but then we’d both be wrong.
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When life gives you lemons, order the lobster tail.
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The new standard of cool is hanging out with friends and not ever looking at a phone.
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Most celebrities barely have high school diplomas so who gives a shit what they think on substantive issues.
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Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it.
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The grass is greener on the other side because it’s fertilized with bullshit.
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Only Neanderthals resort to violence. I prefer crushing one’s spirit, hope, or ego.
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One of my favorite things is when someone posts a selfie and nobody likes it.
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98% of people making comments about Nelson Mandela on social media would fail a history quiz on Nelson Mandela.
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Some chick asked me what I would do with 10 million bucks. I told her I’d wonder where the rest of my money went.
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I don’t have an iPhone case. I’m not irresponsible or poor.
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You shouldn’t retire until your money starts making more money than you made in your best year.
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When I hear, ‘Got a minute?’ I know I’m about to lose a half hour of my life that I can never get back.
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Just be yourself’ is good advice to probably 5% of people.
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Tattoos aren’t my thing. That’d be like putting a bumper sticker on a Lamborghini.
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When you tell a story, all I can think about is how much shorter it should be.
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Poor people eat so much fast food you’d think their time was valuable.
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I start every cell conversation with ‘my phone’s about to die’ so they don’t waste my time.
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Before people are allowed to opine about Syria, they should have to locate it on a map.
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It’s too bad stupidity isn’t painful.
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We didn’t climb our way to the top of the food chain by being vegetarians.
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Most people wouldn’t even be the main character in a movie about their own lives.
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You’re not on Facebook? All your high school friends probably assume you’re dead. – Nah. I’m sure they’ve Googled me.
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If someone has a tattoo saying, ‘Only God Can Judge Me’, I’m gonna prove them wrong.
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