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A human being is an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. - Chr

A human being is an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. – Christopher Morley

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Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear. – Christopher Morley

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Hardship
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We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life. – William Godwin

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The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stew pan and the whole fixed upon stilts. – Samuel Butler, Notebooks

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Body

Many people can listen to their cat more intelligently than they can listen to their own despised body. Because they attend to their pet in a cherishing way, it returns their love. Their body, however, may have to let out an earth-shattering scream in order to be heard at all. – Marion Woodman

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Body

You know the definition of the perfectly designed machine…. The perfectly designed machine is one in which all its working parts wear out simultaneously. I am that machine. – Frederick Alexander Lindemann

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Body

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From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance. – Christopher Morley

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History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is. – Thomas Jefferson

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Government

Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust? – Garrett Hardin

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Family

When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog – big as a donkey. – Ray Davies

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Morning