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Writers tend to work early in the morning, or late at night, when brains are naturally able to focus deeply on one thought. In the middle of the day, distractions are unavoidable. I wonder if anything worthwhile has ever been written in the afternoon.
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Reporters are faced with the daily choice of painstakingly researching stories or writing whatever people tell them. Both approaches pay the same.
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In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.
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Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
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He was deader than a shrunken head at a Hackey Sack festival.
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The best part about being my age is in knowing how my life worked out. Sure, there's a lot more living to go, but there isn't much doubt that I'll always be the 'Dilbert guy.' Unless I go on a crime spree, in which case I'll be that stabbin Dilbert guy.
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If you want to kill an idea without being identified as the assassin, suggest that the legal department take a look at it.
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I never knew what an engineer did for a living when I was a kid. I still don't.
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As a fan, I'm distraught, but as a cartoonist looking at new vacant spaces in 2400 newspapers, well, behind me, my cats are dancing a conga line.
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I keep hearing the argument that some things are constitutional while other things are not. The idea is that we should be in favor of all the things that were decided over 200 years ago by a bunch of slave-owning cross-dressers who pooped in holes.
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As long as there are annoying people in the world, I won't run out of material.
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Dance like it hurts. Love like you need money. Work when people are watching.
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Science is a good thing. News reporters are good things too. But it's never a good idea to put them in the same room.
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I try to manage my day by my circadian rhythms because the creativity is such an elusive thing, and I could easily just stomp over it doing my administrative stuff.
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The Dilbert Principle: People are idiots.
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Dogbert: So, Since Columbus is dead, you have no evidence that the earth is round. Dilbert: Look. You can Ask Senator John Glenn. He orbited the earth when he was an astronaut. Dogbert: So, your theory depends on the honesty of politicians. Dilbert: Yes... no, wait.
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Your business clothes are naturally attracted to staining liquids. This attraction is strongest just before an important meeting.
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The maintenance man is moving the thermostat in our office today. I started talking with him about the
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Some physicists describe gravity in terms of ten dimensions all curled up. But those aren't real words-just placeholders, used to refer to parts of abstract equations.
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My old life - no amount of getting used to it would have made it right.
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If a job's worth doing, it's too hard.
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The only risk of failure is promotion.
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Just because no one has ever gotten better from Spasmodic Dysphonia before doesn't mean I can't be the first.
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And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing.
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