| #3201: | @isparklefairy I regret never having attended a "Dubai shopping festival". Air conditioned I assume. Native products from local malls?
— Sat Jun 19 2010 16:08 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3202: | There is no absolute truth. The most you can hope for is relative truth compared to the other options available.
— Sat Jun 19 2010 19:09 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3203: | While science, math and engineering are useful at times, they are inept at the essential question: Why should we do this?
— Sat Jun 19 2010 19:36 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3204: | There is no compelling argument that basic discoveries in science should be made now rather than later. Every "advance" carries a cost.
— Sat Jun 19 2010 19:47 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3205: | Behind every scientist is the blind religious faith that more knowledge is better, a belief that is not proven by human history.
— Sat Jun 19 2010 19:55 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3206: | On my bucket list: Become the world's foremost expert on the behavior and life cycle of the prairie vole.
— Sat Jun 19 2010 20:05 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3207: | On my bucket list: Earn a PhD in astrophysics.
— Sat Jun 19 2010 20:11 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3208: | Having the government fund space exploration is like having it fund a church. It's a religious pursuit with no relevance to governance.
— Sat Jun 19 2010 20:15 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3209: | Cathedrals in Europe are like McDonalds restaurants. There's one in every town, but you don't need to visit all of them to get the gist.
— Sat Jun 19 2010 20:27 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3210: | My best relationship photos: http://bit.ly/9nSrBK (Facebook album)
— Sun Jun 20 2010 12:13 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3211: | The nature of recognition is that you probably won't get it until it's too late.
— Mon Jun 21 2010 09:51 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3212: | Have no illusions. You are but a small animal on the curb of life trying to cross the busy road.
— Mon Jun 21 2010 10:12 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3213: | Never mistake success for quality.
— Mon Jun 21 2010 14:02 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3214: | The trouble with being a god or superhero is that people will eventually expect more of you than you're capable of.
— Mon Jun 21 2010 15:36 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3215: | To be appreciated fully, you really need to be dead.
— Mon Jun 21 2010 16:12 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3216: | Give people a race to run, and they'll run it. Doesn't matter if the race has any meaning; as long as others are doing it, they will too.
— Tue Jun 22 2010 00:38 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3217: | The lady inside the GPS is my kind of girl, firm in her opinion about where I should go yet willing to recalculate when I choose to differ.
— Tue Jun 22 2010 02:05 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3218: | One of the most important skills in life is the tactical retreat — knowing that your limited resources are better spent elsewhere.
— Tue Jun 22 2010 03:19 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3219: | Perseverance, without intellect, is the strategy of fools. Life doesn't owe you success just because you pursued the same unwavering course.
— Tue Jun 22 2010 03:29 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3220: | "After all that we've been through" is one of the worst justifications for continuing a relationship.
— Tue Jun 22 2010 03:49 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3221: | In the real world, every "solution" creates new problems, sometimes worse than the original one.
— Tue Jun 22 2010 16:16 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3222: | Nothing is as alluring as the unobtainable. It never disappoints!
— Tue Jun 22 2010 20:55 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3223: | We are not our parents' parent! Caretaker, perhaps, but don't expect any change.
— Wed Jun 23 2010 04:56 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3224: | Life's fundamental trauma is the transition from the artificial order of childhood to the chaos of the real world. None of us is prepared!
— Wed Jun 23 2010 11:51 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3225: | Advice from the dog world: Any cat that doesn't run isn't a cat worth chasing.
— Wed Jun 23 2010 12:31 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3226: | Before the GPS, people navigated by the stars, compass, paper maps, road signs and the nagging complaints of the person beside them.
— Wed Jun 23 2010 16:54 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3227: | entertainment — n. a means of occupying time and dealing with your imprisonment without accomplishing anything or facing any of your fears.
— Thu Jun 24 2010 13:58 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3228: | The gap between rules and their enforcement is where most of life is lived.
— Thu Jun 24 2010 13:59 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3229: | Dogs would make better security guards if they could communicate better. Unfortunately, they have only two outputs: bark or don't bark.
— Thu Jun 24 2010 14:03 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3230: | There is no wisdom without humor.
— Thu Jun 24 2010 14:08 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3231: | In Heaven, baggage is strictly limited to one carry-on and one personal item, which means most of you people won't be going there.
— Thu Jun 24 2010 16:31 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3232: | New video: Visiting my Auntie in Eureka, California. http://youtu.be/XBs_BWQISs4 - "I can't wait for you to meet her!"
— Thu Jun 24 2010 21:49 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3233: | New photo album: "Redwood Coast" http://bit.ly/cHRY4S - A 24-hour tour of the Redwoods in Northern California. Bigfoot everywhere!
— Fri Jun 25 2010 21:09 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3234: | The typical human, upon gaining relative wealth, constructs a temple to himself called a "home" in which he is entombed until death.
— Fri Jun 25 2010 23:49 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3235: | The vast majority of consumer marketing is intended to sell the consumer something not in his true best interests — i.e. a "scam".
— Sat Jun 26 2010 08:11 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3236: | New video: Lost in the Redwoods http://youtu.be/NvIzCJp9dN4 - Whichever way I go, there's no way out!
— Sat Jun 26 2010 13:27 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3237: | A "no kill" animal shelter sounds noble until the numbers saved exceed the available resources, then all must suffer and none are saved.
— Sat Jun 26 2010 16:02 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3238: | In any field, most people see only the skin of things. They can't comprehend the skeleton — the underlying structure that makes it all work.
— Sat Jun 26 2010 18:12 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3239: | On my bucket list: Become immortalized as the icon image of a fast food restaurant chain (like Col. Sanders or Wendy).
— Sat Jun 26 2010 19:11 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3240: | When you find my tweets attractive, please star them. (recorded at http://favstar.fm/users/kilroycafe ) i.e. click that thar star------->
— Sat Jun 26 2010 19:30 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3241: | cruise — n. a packaged consumer experience providing the illusion of travel without any risk of self-discovery. See also: Las Vegas.
— Sat Jun 26 2010 20:29 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3242: | There is no greater tyranny than rigid enforcement of rules without regard to context.
— Sat Jun 26 2010 21:22 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3243: | Personality is not open to reason, negotiation or gentle persuasion. Only extended pain has a chance of changing it.
— Sat Jun 26 2010 21:53 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3244: | Drug abuse is a personality disorder. It is an expression of not just a chemical addiction but a certain philosophy of life.
— Sat Jun 26 2010 21:59 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3245: | Freeway speed limit is 65, but no car is going < 70. Cops ticket at a certain speed but won't reveal it. All of life is a game like that.
— Sat Jun 26 2010 22:27 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3246: | Death is the final garage sale. If you can do most of that downsizing now, you might squeeze more life out of the time you have left.
— Sat Jun 26 2010 23:35 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3247: | There's a difference between food that tastes good and food that makes you feel good. For your health (in all things), listen to the latter.
— Sun Jun 27 2010 00:38 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3248: | Taste is fleeting. Only nutrition lasts.
— Sun Jun 27 2010 00:42 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3249: | airport — n. an extravagant municipal construction project funded with public debt based on absurdly optimistic growth projections.
— Sun Jun 27 2010 02:50 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3250: | Wherever a system of rules is established, a predator class emerges to feed off the rule system itself and exploit its weaknesses.
— Sun Jun 27 2010 03:56 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3251: | The role of a legislature is to respond with outrage to problems created by previous actions of the same body.
— Sun Jun 27 2010 04:13 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3252: | It's impossible for me to mention Transylvania without pronouncing my w's as v's and expressing my fervent desire to ingest your hemoglobin.
— Sun Jun 27 2010 04:46 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3253: | The trouble with too much money is it often takes the place of brains, encouraging complicated and expensive solutions to simple problems.
— Sun Jun 27 2010 13:41 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3254: | Technically, coffee is not "food" and does not constitute "breakfast".
— Sun Jun 27 2010 14:14 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3255: | He who trusts his GPS without understanding the route himself has a fool for a copilot.
— Sun Jun 27 2010 14:34 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3256: | "You get what you pay for" is false! The quality of a solution has little relation to its price, more the thought you put into it.
— Sun Jun 27 2010 16:01 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3257: | If something makes you happy once, it won't necessarily make you happy again when repeated, because by then your needs will have changed.
— Sun Jun 27 2010 16:10 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3258: | The other side of "charming" is "inefficient". Makes you want to strangle it sometimes.
— Sun Jun 27 2010 17:32 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3259: | Most of life's problems are best addressed by taking control of them yourself instead of expecting others to solve them for you.
— Sun Jun 27 2010 18:52 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3260: | Budget airline route maps: RyanAir http://bit.ly/bhG2gt EasyJet http://bit.ly/bhlo0L - I could spend hours with these, just dreamin'!
— Sun Jun 27 2010 22:07 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3261: | People of Wal-Mart are a distinct human race, like Neanderthals. They supply our prisons and child welfare system and breed prodigiously.
— Mon Jun 28 2010 05:57 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3262: | Among adult humans, curiosity is rare. They may notice an alien presence in their environment, but they won't change course to investigate.
— Mon Jun 28 2010 05:59 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3263: | Curiosity is avoided because it carries a cost: It runs the risk of revealing that your own personal investments are in error.
— Mon Jun 28 2010 06:00 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3264: | "The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions." — Oliver Wendell Holmes via @tweetsayings
— Tue Jun 29 2010 13:24 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3265: | You call me homeless. I call you home burdened and feel very sorry for you.
— Tue Jun 29 2010 16:16 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3266: | The Stockholm Syndrome says that hostages eventually come to identify with their captors. See also: "family"
— Tue Jun 29 2010 22:28 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3267: | Someone whose home is a museum is not really living life, merely curating it.
— Wed Jun 30 2010 03:10 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3268: | New video: Area 51 Exposed at Last! http://youtu.be/HRIqb7JPrSI (0:44) - What the networks don't want you to know!
— Wed Jun 30 2010 04:41 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3269: | Photo: Aboard a bus from Dallas to Austin. http://bit.ly/9b5j4P - Ah, the bus! Transportation of the proletariat.
— Wed Jun 30 2010 13:04 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3270: | Catholic Church — cult known for its inquisitions, crusades, breeding of pedophiles and opposition to birth control, all in the name of God.
— Wed Jun 30 2010 15:35 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3271: | The only difference between a "cult" and a "religion" is the number of members.
— Wed Jun 30 2010 15:37 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3272: | The highest achievement of comedy is not just to be funny but to be so insightful, wise and observant that it makes you laugh.
— Thu Jul 01 2010 02:22 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3273: | Even after years of research and testing, there is still no clean-burning form of love.
— Thu Jul 01 2010 02:43 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3274: | The first phase of love is exploratory. That sustains you a while, until everything is known; the mystique is gone, and love becomes work.
— Thu Jul 01 2010 12:03 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3275: | No great fraud can be blamed entirely on deception. The victim also conned himself, ignoring the warning signs to serve his emotional need.
— Thu Jul 01 2010 14:04 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3276: | "Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better." - Andréide via @tweetsayings
— Thu Jul 01 2010 15:39 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3277: | In software, as in life, every upgrade comes at a cost. Something that worked is now broken, and some simple but powerful feature is lost.
— Thu Jul 01 2010 16:55 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3278: | Sex is fun and all, but sooner or later someone's going to take it seriously and think it means something.
— Thu Jul 01 2010 19:48 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3279: | Something can be truly "fun" only the first time you do it. With each repetition, it becomes more and more like work.
— Thu Jul 01 2010 20:34 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3280: | Time is the only non-negotiable resource — and in the end the most precious.
— Fri Jul 02 2010 00:09 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3281: | Only those without morality need a God to give it to them.
— Fri Jul 02 2010 01:31 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3282: | Those who expect order from the world will get, at best, only the temporary illusion of it.
— Fri Jul 02 2010 03:22 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3283: | On my bucket list: Write a catchy but meaningless slogan for a major advertising campaign selling a product no one really needs.
— Fri Jul 02 2010 05:27 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3284: | The dark side of love is attachment that lasts long after the relationship has lost its function.
— Fri Jul 02 2010 05:28 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3285: | Never buy any product with "smart" in the title (e.g. SmartWater). Falling for that ploy just proves you're not.
— Fri Jul 02 2010 14:58 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3286: | On my bucket list: Become a Russian spy and infiltrate American society, becoming known as a femme fatale with my sexy Facebook photos.
— Sat Jul 03 2010 02:16 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3287: | The trouble with journalism is that both sides get equal time — even if one side is a single lunatic spouting nonsense.
— Sat Jul 03 2010 15:44 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3288: | TV ad says "You haven't seen nature until you've seen it in HD." Actually, you haven't seen nature until you've seen it in RL.
— Sat Jul 03 2010 20:48 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3289: | Reply to @wordymouth "How do you get RL? Is that an upgrade?" - RL is HD 3D 360 with olfactory and tactile channels. No warranty, though.
— Sat Jul 03 2010 21:35 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3290: | American society today consists of two classes: people in prison and people on the outside laboring to support them.
— Sat Jul 03 2010 21:36 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3291: | Mail order bride from Russia? So how long do you expect to keep her after she gains U.S. citizenship? Facebook ad: http://bit.ly/d7nezI
— Sat Jul 03 2010 22:50 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3292: | There's nothing so schadenfreude as watching the rich and famous get old and decrepit. See, they're not so different!
— Sun Jul 04 2010 17:08 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3293: | Want to destroy someone? You don't need guns or blackmail. Just give him instant fame or a huge amount of money and watch him self-destruct.
— Mon Jul 05 2010 17:10 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3294: | Low fares. Spacious seating. No security screening. No seatbelt requirements. No cellphone restrictions. Go Greyhound! http://bit.ly/d2qGJ3
— Mon Jul 05 2010 17:15 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3295: | Good food is not just what tastes good but what makes you feel good afterwards.
— Tue Jul 06 2010 16:35 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3296: | Life's most difficult challenge is seeing your life from the outside, as a dispassionate observer without a stake in the proceedings.
— Thu Jul 08 2010 00:17 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3297: | Latest news flash from Hollywood is that the people who make their living pretending to be other people are emotionally screwed up. Duh!
— Thu Jul 08 2010 02:09 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3298: | Pro Tip (travel): Always pee before visiting Manhattan. Your last clean restroom is a casino in Atlantic City.
— Thu Jul 08 2010 12:31 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3299: | On my bucket list: Become a Manhattan chocolatier, assembling exquisite handcrafted bonbons for my well-to-do Park Avenue clientele.
— Thu Jul 08 2010 15:57 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3300: | In Hell, they make you ride a jam-packed city bus across Queens—forever! They promise to get you to LaGuardia Airport, but it never happens.
— Thu Jul 08 2010 19:21 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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