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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

James Thurber

Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog.
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Dog Happiness Man Strange Trouble
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
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
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
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
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
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Alcohol Drink Enough Right
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
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Confusion Happiness Thinking
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble
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
Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Come Earth Inheritance Weakness
Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Death One Liner Reason Treason
I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
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Beginning Method Myself Open Word

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