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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
As I bit into the nectarine, it had a crisp juiciness about it that was very pleasurable---until I realized it wasn't a nectarine at all, but A HUMAN HEAD
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T. S. Eliot
Human kind cannot bear much reality.
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William James Durant
The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Thomas Jefferson
When angry, count ten before you speak if very angry, an hundred.
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Robert Logan
Failure is a path, not a destination.
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John Updike
We are most alive when we're in love.
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Nicolas Martin, www.iatrogenic.org
The headline reads, Docs say patients make them prescribe useless antibiotics. This puts a physician in roughly the same predicament as a serial killer. The latter says, Stop me before I kill again, while the former says, Stop me before I prescribe again.
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Albert Einstein
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
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Percival
One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe.
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Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, chapter 8
He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.
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Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 04, 2004
I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly. - Epistulae ad Lucilium
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