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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

A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
-- Granville Hicks

"If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The true function of art is to edit nature, and so make it coherent and lovely. The artist
is a sort of impassioned proofreader, blue-penciling the bad spelling of God.
-- H. L. Mencken

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

That is called integrity. Unfortunately it is not something you can buy or steal.
-- The L Word

You know how it is: whatever beliefs you hold, you will find experiences to support it.
-- Silvia Hartmann

"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
-- William G. McAdoo

"Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies."
-- Nelson Mandela

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
-- Edith Wharton

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
-- George Burns

I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year....It's very character-building.
-- Steve Jobs

"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know
and what you don't."
-- Anatole France

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
-- Norman Vincent Peale