In the 1940s a survey listed the top seven discipline problems in public schools talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in the halls, getting out of turn in line, wearing improper clothes, not putting paper in wastebaskets. A 1980s survey lists these top seven drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, assault. (Arson, gang warfare and venereal disease are also-rans.)
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Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.
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Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.
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TV is chewing gum for the eyes
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TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
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TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.
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Television: chewing gum for the eyes.
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This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
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Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth -- don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
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This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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