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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

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
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
Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Come Earth Inheritance Weakness
Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Appearance Believe Eat One Liner
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
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Fools People Time Yourself
Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Body Count Patience Yourself
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
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm
I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Born Children Myself
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
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Brutal Difference Ourselves
Somebody has said that woman’s place is in the wrong. That’s fine. What the wrong needs is a woman’s presence and a woman’s touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
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Place Presence Right Woman Wrong
Discussion in America means dissent.
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Country Discussion
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman

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