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"I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn't pay the bill either, but it was cheaper."
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"There are two types of egoism: one is living and other one is lifeless. As long as the living egoism is there, one can never attain the awareness of the Self (Atma)."

"Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and a good day to die. Every day is also an apt time to learn and express joy and love for the entire natural world. Each day is an apt time to make contact with other people and express empathy for the entire world. Each day is perfect to accept with indifference all aspects of being."

"Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer."

"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."

"The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all."

"The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living."
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"They sit there in committees day after day, And they each put in a color and it comes out gray. And we all have heard the saying, which is true as well as witty, That a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee."

"Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck."

"Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage."

"You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other hand, a shoe can't hurt you too deeply either. And there are so many nice-looking shoes."

"When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents."

"Somewhere, over the rainbow, Way up tall, There's a land where they've never heard of cholesterol."

"Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else."
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