Anyway, my writer gang: they kind of did their comedy apprenticeship with me and, during that period, when they were young and impressionable, I think I infected them with my pun virus. They grew to enjoy puns, think puns, just as much as me. The problem is people don't really like puns any more, so I worry I've rendered the poor fuckers virtually unemployable.


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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalist...
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how...
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I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I&...
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The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in ...
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Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activi...
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Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't...
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The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do.
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the produ...
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian ...
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I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about re...
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The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a th...
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The consequences of an act affect the probability of it's occurring again.
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If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
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[T]he food choice of others is becoming more and more heatedly exclusive until it may well turn into...
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One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.
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One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's confusions
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I can't see how any woman can find time to do to herself all the things that must apparently be done...
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Women have a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made...
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In o...
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I'm very pessimistic.
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I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.
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I never really expected to be controversial.
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I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inher...
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You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid st...
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The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the n...
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What is sought can never produce the seeking.
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We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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boys, girls and music . . why do they need gin?
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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
ANNE FRANK
The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to...
FRANK IERO
I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I...
FRANK SINATRA
The best revenge is massive success.
FRANK SINATRA
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
FRANK ZAPPA
Mobile video is now a reality and a force to be reckoned with. I think it is essential to think abou...
ZE FRANK