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" Home is pretty utopian. "
Scott Adams
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" If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? "
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" I'm a poor artist. Through brute force, I brought myself up to mediocre. I've never taken a writing class, but I can write okay. "
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" I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw. "
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" Beware of advice about successful people and their methods. For starters, no two situations are alike. Your dreams of creating a dry-cleaning empire won't be helped by knowing that Thomas Edison liked to take naps. "
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" The only risk of failure is promotion. "
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" There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives. "
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" The computer cuts my production time in half. I love it. "
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" There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot. "
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" If you see voters as rational, you'll be a terrible politician. People are not wired to be rational. Our brains simply evolved to keep us alive. Brains did not evolve to give us truth. Brains merely give us movies in our minds that keeps us sane and motivated. But none of it is rational or true, except maybe sometimes by coincidence. "
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" 'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip. "
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" I would sometimes sit in a crowded restaurant, and say, 'You know, I'm the only person in this restaurant who can't draw.' "
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" I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination. "
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" Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion. "
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" I've tried lots of things. The reality is, I'm excited by everything on Day 1. And if by Day X things aren't working the way I hoped, I lose my passion. I have not seen the correlation between my passion and my success. "
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" Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently. "
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" We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings. "
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" The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. "
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" I love magazines. It's such McNugget kind of information. "
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" I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist, but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning. I always imagined cartooning would be how I got my seed capital. I always thought my other businesses would be the less dominant part of my life. "
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