All I ever wanted was to know what to do. - Dave Eggers

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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Dave Eggers

All I ever wanted was to know what to do.

Know, Knows, Wanted

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I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I'd lose my mind.

Chaos, Idea, Ideas, Lose, Mind, People

How many times in life can we make decisions that are important but will not hurt anyone? Are we obligated- maybe we are- to say yes to any choice when no one will be hurt? We use the word hurt when talking about things like this because when these things go wrong it can feel as if you were hit in the sternum by a huge animal that's run for miles just to strike you.

Animal, Decisions, Hurt, Running, Wrong

Morning comes like a scream through a pinhole.

Like, Morning, Pinhole, Scream

I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U. S.

Book, Lying, Mean, Printing, Right, Somehow

I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing.

Done, Eight, Self, Work, Yesterday

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Dwight L. Moody

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Death, Empty, Old, Retirement, Senior, Teens

J. Philippe Rushton

Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.

Claimed, Human, People, Race, Races, Silly

Dick Cavett

Statistically, I'd say comedy writers are perhaps the sanest category of show people. And why not? They make big money, and although it's not an easy trade - particularly when you're at your galley oar five days a week - it's easier on the nerves and the psyche than living with the brain-squeezing pressure and cares of being the Star.

Brain, Make, People, Pressure, Psyche, Stars

Mark Rippetoe

Exercise is not a thing we do to fix a problem - it is a thing we must do anyway, a thing without which there will always be problems

Anyway, Exercise, Fix, Problem, Thing

Jessica Chastain

I no longer think in terms of, Ooh, this is a great role and what is it going to do for - actually, I've never really thought about what something is going to do for my career.

Actually, Careers, Ooh, Role, Roles, Thinking