The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.

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About Dave Barry

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David McAlister Barry (born 3 July 1947) is an American author and columnist who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for the Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005. He has written numerous books of humor and parody, as well as comic novels and children's novels. Barry's honors include the Pulitzer...

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Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

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Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.

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He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument.

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You never know how something will work out until you go for it.

—Shana Norris in The Boyfriend Thief

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When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.

—Betty Bender

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Where the whole man is involved, there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

—Marshall McLuhan

The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.

—C. Wright Mills

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They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

—Kahlil Gibran

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