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" I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is. "
Fred Allen
Remember
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" An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission. "
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" I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there. "
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" Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure. "
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" The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand. "
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" Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great. "
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" A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. "
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" A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better. "
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" A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. "
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Done
" It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals. "
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Done
Group
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" We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion. "
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History
Living
" Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you. "
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Life
Shoulders
" I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin. "
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Own
Coffin
" Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted. "
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