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Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky.
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Eye
Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.
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Change
Birds
Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?
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Dress
World
It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.
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Future
Past
Present
It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you.
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People
Want
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
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Family
History
People
Knowledge
Care
Generations
It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count.
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People
Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.
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Life
End
First
Want
Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.
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Forget
Invention
In our heads we're all about 33 years old.
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Old
Years
Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.
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Goals
If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?
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Life
Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.
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Men
Woman
Words
Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.
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Moments
Rest
Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.
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Business
People
Idea
English
Past