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" Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent? "
Dave Barry
Person
Always
Keep
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" Never assume that the guy understands that you and he have a relationship. "
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" Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro. "
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" It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin. "
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" If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.' "
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" The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl. "
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" I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War. "
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