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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

James Thurber

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
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Cost Greatness Humor Serious Thinking
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Brutal Difference Ourselves
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Answer Better Known Question
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
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Chaos Emotional Humor Remember Tranquility
If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.
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Herself Man Sex Strong Woman Wonder
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
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
There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Deep Glow Illumination Kind Light
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Angel Lifespan Time
I don’t believe the writer should know too much where he’s going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprintold man propaganda.
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Believe Man Myself Old Writing
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
I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.
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Feeling Heart Sadness Sorry Touch Yourself
Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.
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Destination Direction End Journey Path
A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Act Creation Fake Misunderstanding Thinking
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

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

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