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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

James Thurber

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
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Enough Hard Time Man Simplicity Trouble Truth
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Alcohol Drink Enough Right
There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
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Believe Born Leadership Poet
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Brutal Difference Ourselves
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
Discussion in America means dissent.
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Country Discussion
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
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Dog Himself Level Man Success
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Confusion Happiness Thinking
When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
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Effective Equality Reveal Writing
The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals
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Animal Dog Fun Laughter Man Reason
With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
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Definite Development Face Myself Structure
The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing’s fun. You’re getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.
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Act Move Myself Writing
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking

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