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“To chase pleasure is to be chased by pain.”
“The ability to utter wise words is not exclusive to the wise.”
“Unhappiness and the like often inspire us to perform random acts of unkindness.”
“You can look unhappy but feel the opposite. Or vice versa.”
“The question is not whether or not someone in your life is using you, but how are they using you.”
“Men are born with nothing with which to buy. Women are born with something to sell.”
“One of the biggest problems that most men have with life is that the vagina comes with the woman.”
“Thinking’ is in almost all cases a euphemism for ‘self-storytelling’.”
“A long life is a curse if you have a short temper.”
“Education teaches us how to make a living, not how to live.”
“Not complaining is sometimes a show off of tolerance or patience.”
“Being older deceives us into thinking that we are experts at being the ages we used to be.”
“A question is as capable as an answer of unintentionally revealing ignorance or stupidity.”
“Horniness pretty much always oversells an orgasm.”
“Slavery often masquerades as freedom.”
“Caffeine’ is a euphemism for ‘Anxiety wrapped in increased alertness’.”
“A push-up bra makes it possible for a woman to show off great breasts … she does not have.”
“To plan is to hope … without feeling passive.”
“To live is to owe life to die.”
“The person you are mad at for being late could be late.”
“To be pained by someone’s death is to make their death about you.”
“Living is the outside of dying.”
“Some of the things we are trying to pray away were caused by some of our answered prayers.”
“We sometimes run for our life to our death.”
“A girl or woman that drinks or smokes is very unlikely to still be a virgin.”
“Some women wish the pregnancy tests also told them who the fathers are.”
“Men pay for sex. Women pay with sex.”