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I once saw a forklift lift a crate of forks. And it was way to literal for me.
Mitch Hedberg

Literal, Lift, Forks

I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore.
Steve Jobs

Life, Experience, End

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Everything, Free, Thrown

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
W. C. Fields

Food, Live, Nothing

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.
Phyllis Diller

Made, Same, Guy

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
James A. Baldwin

Hate, Pain, Sense

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Wise, Fool, Finally

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.
Will Rogers

Money, Government, Keep

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
Sophia Loren

Alone, Mother, Thoughts

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Napoleon Hill

Goal, Accept, Defeat

Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Decision, Before, Times

You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
Oprah Winfrey

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Sea, Wonder, Forever

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher

Fight, May, Battle

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.
Erma Bombeck

Women, Home, Forever

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Truth, Impossible, Matter

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.
Will Rogers

Nothing, America, Nation

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
Ernest Hemingway

War, Happen, Defeat

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.
Warren Buffett

Nature, Anyone, Almost

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
Vladimir Lenin

Few, Class, Decide

I saw a human pyramid once. It was very unnecessary.
Mitch Hedberg

I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.
Nikita Khrushchev

Working, Said, Trouble

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.
Ernest Hemingway

Live, Him, Learned

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Before, Perfect, Sometimes

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
Norman Vincent Peale

Crying, Promises, Theater

Once you label me you negate me.
Soren Kierkegaard

Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.
Billy Graham

Lost, Realize, Privacy

I like to hold the microphone cord like this, I pinch it together, then I let it go, then you hear a whole bunch of jokes at once.
Mitch Hedberg

Together, Whole, Hear

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
Voltaire

Good, Year, Times

Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead.
Erma Bombeck

Someone, Small, Dead

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