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If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.


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Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.



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Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.



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It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.



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Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.



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The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.



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Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.



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Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.





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Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.




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