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• E-I-E-I-O is actually a gross misspelling of the word farm.

  George Carlin

  Gross, Farms

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.191, Hachette UK

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• When I hear a person talking about political solutions, I know I am not listening to a serious person.

  George Carlin

  Serious Person, Talking, Political

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• I'm never critical or judgmental about whether or not a movie is any good. The way I look at it, if several hundred people got together every day for a year or so - a number of then willing to put on heavy makeup, wear clothes that weren't their own and pretend to be people other than themselves - and their whole purpose for doing all this was to entertain me, then I'm not gonna start worrying about whether or not they did a good job. The effort alone was enough to make me happy.

  George Carlin

  Jobs, Makeup, Years

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• I think the warning labels on alcoholic beverages are too bland. They should be more vivid. Here are a few I would suggest: "Alcohol will turn you into the same asshole your father was."; "Drinking will significantly improve your chances of murdering a loved one."; "If you drink long enough, at some point you will vomit up the lining of your stomach."; "Use this product and you may wake up in Morocco wearing a cowboy suit and tongue-kissing a transmission salesman."

  George Carlin

  Father, Drinking, Kissing

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.657, Hachette UK

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• Tonight's forecast: DARK. Continued mostly dark tonight, turning to wildly scattered light in the morning

  George Carlin

  Morning, Dark, Light

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• Like on the airlines, they say they want to 'pre-board'. Well, what the hell is 'pre board'? What does that mean? To get on before you get on?

  George Carlin

  Mean, Want, Doe

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• Now, some people do this for shock value. Shock is just another uptown word for surprise. Granted it has a different quality to it, but a joke is about surprising someone. I'm a great believer in context. You can joke about anything. I do like finding out where the line is drawn, deliberately crossing it and bringing some of them with me across the line, and having them be happy that I did.

  George Carlin

  People, Quality, Different

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• When you're born in this world you're given a ticket to the Freak Show. And when you're born in America, you're given a front row seat. And some of us get to sit there with notebooks.

  George Carlin

  Notebook, America, World

  "Archive of American Television". Interview with Henry Colman and Jenni Matz, interviews.televisionacademy.com. December 17, 2007.

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• We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

  Midge Decter

  Strong, Growing Up, Maturity

  Midge Decter (1975). “Liberal parents, radical children”, Coward McCann

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• There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but in the history of their manufacture, which is filled with raids, battles, lonely pioneers, great gambles, hope, fear, despair, triumph. If some of our novels could be written by the typewriters instead of on them, how much better they would be.

  J. B. Priestley

  Lonely, Science, Typewriters

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• If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

  Douglas Coupland

  Courage, Halloween, Years

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.23, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I want to suggest to you that the day of the artists has come. That there are things about symbols and the genuine indirectness of art with integrity that can speak into a lost and stuck imagination. We are awakening the imagination of people who have become cynical about the old 'grand stories' that have done so much harm. We are sowing the possibility that the might be one which could actually set them free.

  Graham Cray

  Art, Integrity, People

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• True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness.

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Compassion, Focus, Mindfulness

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• In this complex world, the best way to survive is to be genuine.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Inspirational Life, Way, World

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• And whether this happiness lasted a hundred seconds or ten minutes, it was so far removed from time that it resembled every other genuine happiness as completely as one fluttering blue lycaenid butterfly resembles another.

  Hermann Hesse

  Butterfly, Blue, Hundred

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• There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.

  Frederick William Faber

  Integrity, Character, Self

  Frederick William Faber (1860). “Spiritual conferences”, p.163

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• Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

  Georg Ebers

  Friendship, Two Friends, Genuine Friends

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• Capablanca's play produced and still produces an irresistable artistic effect. In his games a tendency towards simplicity predominated, and in this simplicity there was a unique beauty of genuine depth.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Unique, Games, Play

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• The Concerned Photographer produces images in which genuine human feeling predominates over commercial cynicism or disinterested formalism.

  Cornell Capa

  Photography, Feelings, Photographer

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• Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind except by brainwashing, which is the very opposite of genuine teaching.

  Mortimer Adler

  Teacher, Memories, Teaching

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• Taste and smell are often the beggars among our five senses - they leave no written language and therefore no standards other than wholly personal ones. Tasting a superlative Moselle wine can be an aesthetic experience no less genuine than hearing a Mozart piano concerto or seeing for the first time an original Breughel painting.

  Frank Schoonmaker

  Wine, Piano, Smell

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• This gentleman has taken on the very fashionable theme of fighting corruption and I say again: In order to fight corruption you have to be crystal clear yourself. But there are problems here, and in this regard I unfortunately have a suspicion that this is just a way of getting votes and not a genuine desire to solve the problem.

  Vladimir Putin

  Taken, Fighting, Gay

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• I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Bible, Jesus, Shining

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• Genuine thanksgiving is a response to both who God is and what He has done, is doing, and will do.

  Joyce Meyer

  Blessing, Done, Who God Is

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• History provides many examples of democracy crushed by people who said to be the champion of "genuine democracy" and "the people's real meaning". The realization about this may lead us to a defence position that conceals that democracy is an extraordinarily demanding way of rule. It must constantly find new ways to revitalize, to reach out to people and make them active. Dictatorships offers a machinery of obedience, closed and externally well-oiled. Democracy is based on fairness, openness and pulsating life. Therefore it must constantly be won again.

  Olof Palme

  Real, People, Champion

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