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Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

James Thurber

Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
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Behavior Man Mindset Understand
Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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Company Crowd Party Travel Wanderer
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
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Collision Fly Greatness Man World
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
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Belief Dog Heaven Immortal Known Myself Person
I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
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Cleaning Hands Night Reason
Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Appearance Believe Eat One Liner
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Act Creation Fake Misunderstanding Thinking
Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
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Challenge Comedy Drugs Therapy
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Burden Hands Worth
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman
Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Attention Beautiful One Liner
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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Cross Desire Friendship Lost Street
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

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