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If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

James Thurber

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Confusion Happiness Thinking
There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Deep Glow Illumination Kind Light
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Burden Hands Worth
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
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
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Angel Lifespan Time
Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Appearance Believe Eat One Liner
Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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Insight Tragedy Wisdom Writing
Discussion in America means dissent.
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Country Discussion
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
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
For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Accent Ignore Language Pronounce
I have lived in the East for nearly thirty years now, but many of my books prove that I am never very far away from Ohio in my thoughts, and that the clocks that strike in my dreams are often the clocks of Columbus.
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Book Dreams Evidence Live Myself Thinking
Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
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Cost Greatness Humor Serious Thinking
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Exception Rule
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

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