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Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.
-- Barbara Tober

No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.
-- Leon Wieseltier, in The New Republic

I do believe in living each day like it was my last. That's why I never have any clean clothes, for honestly, who bothers to do laundry on your last day?
- Danish school kid

Good Advice
(from kids)
Making your bed is a waste of time.
Don't ask your three-year-old brother to hold a tomato.
Don't wear polka-dotted underpants under white shorts.
Don't drink anything when you're upside down.
Don't tease your sister when she is holding a baseball bat.

Let's have some new cliches.
-- Samuel Goldwyn