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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. I think it would be a good idea. When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. - Hubert H. Humphrey, US politician (1911 - 1978) They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. Reality is something you rise above. Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. The purpose of life is to fight maturity. Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size? Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat. Not only is life a bitch, it has puppies. I have often depended on the blindness of strangers. My mother buried three husbands, and two of them were just napping. When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on. Children are all foreigners. The secret of eternal youth is arrested development. It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight. Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady. The entire economy of the Western world is built on things that cause cancer. I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places. They certainly give very strange names to diseases. One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure. Living in a vacuum sucks. Architecture is the art of how to waste space. It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them. Blame someone else and get on with your life. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there. We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people. There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away. The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel. Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein. Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead. Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police. I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any. There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee. An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right. |
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