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“Whenever I travel I like to keep the seat next to me empty. I found a great way to do it. When someone walks down the aisle and says to you, "Is someone sitting there?" just say, "No one except the Lord."”
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“Stay busy and take care of your own business.”
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“Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.”
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“Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.”
Source : "Comic Sections: The Book of Mathematical Jokes, Humour, Wit, and Wisdom". Book by Des MacHale, 1993.
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“It is not easy to free myth from reality or rear this fellow up to lutch, lurch with them in the tranced dancing of men.”
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“If this is what it's going to take to satisfy everybody, then let's do it and move on.”
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“Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue.”
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“Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who did not belong. She knew from experience that she would quickly have to ingratiate herself with her new masters to avoid being rejected or, in more dire cases, punished. Then there would be the phase where she would have to sharpen her senses in order to see and hear as acutely as possible so that she could assimilate quickly all the new customs and the words most frequently used by the group she was to become a part of--so that finally, she would be judged on her own merits.”
Source : Guillermo Arriaga, F. G. Haghenbeck, Reyna Grande, Laura Esquivel, Javier Valdes (2013). “Atria Español Presents: The Best of Mexican Literature”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
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“I always ask myself, "Did I get one percent better today?"”
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“My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.”
