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

James Thurber

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble
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
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
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm
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
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Chaos Emotional Humor Remember Tranquility
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Brutal Difference Ourselves
Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Come Earth Inheritance Weakness
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
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
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself
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
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

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