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Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
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Society
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Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.
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Age
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Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
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Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.
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People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.
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We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
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The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.
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A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
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Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
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Age
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The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
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Politics
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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
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An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
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The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.
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It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
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