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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

James Thurber

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
JAMES THURBER

Death Learning Man Strive Wisdom
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself
Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
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Challenge Comedy Drugs Therapy
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Cake Dangerous Food Marriage One Liner Sarcasm
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm
So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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Finding Writing Yourself
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Deep Glow Illumination Kind Light
Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
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Achievement Character Expression Humor Laughter Separate
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
JAMES THURBER

Answer Better Known Question
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Exception Rule
History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.
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Business Evidence Government History Ourselves Time
Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Come Earth Inheritance Weakness
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
I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
JAMES THURBER

Disturb Himself Listening Reason

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