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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.

James Thurber

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
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
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Darkness Dreams Fear Sleep
Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Attention Beautiful One Liner
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess.
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Future Guess Past Sound
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
Discussion in America means dissent.
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Country Discussion
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Angel Lifespan Time
Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
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Artist Childhood Man Remember
For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Accent Ignore Language Pronounce
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Break Up Love Yourself
There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Deep Glow Illumination Kind Light
Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Come Earth Inheritance Weakness
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
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Death Learning Man Strive Wisdom
The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they’ve been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.
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Laughter People Tragedy
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn

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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