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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.
- It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.
- Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
- The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.
- To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life.
- Back then, the entire Internet consisted of two slow, boxcar-sized UNIVAC computers about 50 feet apart, connected by a wire. It would take one of…
- But that's kind of an easy stance to be if you're a humor columnist, because you're tending to make fun of the government and the…
- A hundred years ago, it could take you the better part of a year to get from New York to California; whereas today, because of…
- At the height of rush hour, people on the London underground actually say "excuse me." Imagine what would happen if you tried an insane stunt…
- ... Once you're safely in the mall, you should tie your children to you with ropes so the other shoppers won't try to buy them.…
- Take the folks at Coca-Cola. For many years, they were content to sit back and make the same old carbonated beverage. It was a good…
- When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that…
- No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.
- Guys care about sports teams. I'm not talking about simply rooting; I'm talking about a relationship that guys develop, a commitment to a sport team…
- Most of the presidential candidates' economic packages involve 'tax breaks,' which is when the government, amid great fanfare, generously decides not to take quite so…
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- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
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- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger. — Lance Armstrong