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Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication,

Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains. – Author and exact wording unknown, I’ve been told this was quoted by Paul H

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The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. – David Hare

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Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone the police and report, “There’s a naked person outside!” – Mike Nichols

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One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. – Henry James

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Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. – Confucius

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Walking is mans best medicine. – Hippocrates

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. – Phyllis Diller, Phyllis Diller’s Housekeeping Hints, 1966

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Few great men could pass personnel. – Paul Goodman

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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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