The more we succeed, the more we’re seduced into thinking we can control everything. We dissect Revelation to get a sense of control over the future.
BILL VAUGHANThe old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is the atheist who does not believe in himself.
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We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
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These are days you’ll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
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Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.
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Evil is only of this world. In the other world there is neither good nor evil; all there is, is beaut).
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The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye, He would see that no one is weaker than himself.
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What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.
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Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.
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Middle age is when you realize that you’ll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.
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Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.
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What they’ll do is eat their body weight in marshmallow fluff, walk away, they’ll vomit, and they’ll come back and eat their body weight again. And they’ll vomit. And they’ll do that for as long as there is marshmallow fluff out there. They love marshmallow fluff.
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Someday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely children who still manages to be happy.
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Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, ’tis but a hookless bait.
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When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.
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On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.
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We’ve found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we’re going to err on the side of caution.
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There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once. Human nature can easily be over-faced by examples too remote and austere.
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Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven!
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There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.
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It turns out there’s only one thing that capuchins really, really love – and that’s sweet stuff. If you give them a big vat of say, marshmallow fluff, and you let them go at it.
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The wise individual doesn’t get too attached to any of life’s pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it’s bad for him.
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Nothing is more irritating than not being invited to a party you wouldn”t be seen dead at
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Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
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In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
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The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident
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The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.
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Healing is the rediscovery of who we are and who we have always been.
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