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“Swimming is not a sport. Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That's just common sense!”

George Carlin

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“If you guys want to get a MOM tattoo and save a little money, just get two letters done. Get about a one-inch capital M tattooed on each cheek of your ass in pink and brown ink. Then when you bend over, it says "Mom." Also, later on if you're havin' sex with your girlfriend, and her parents are in…

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You've built up so much speed that you HIT 70! After that it's a day-by-day thing; you HIT Wednesday!

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Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people.

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There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks…

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Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen.

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A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional…

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