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Comedian and writer Andy Borowitz chose lines from some of America's sharpest wits.
9. George Carlin
Stand-up comic George Carlin on the way that television professionals misuse words: "Unique needs no modifier. Very unique, quite unique, more unique, real unique, fairly unique, and extremely unique are wrong, and they mark you as dumb. Although certainly not unique."
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