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Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor. – James Thurber

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Im 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, Id only be 48. Thats the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40. – James Thurber

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Women
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James Thurber
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The story of Harold Ross, the New Yorker and me is a mere footnote to the story of our time, and we might as well face the truth that to researchers of the future, poking about among the ruins of time, we shall all be tiny glitters. But then, so are diamonds. – James Thurber

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Jewelry
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The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybodys guess. – James Thurber

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Future
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Other Quotes from
Sight
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The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the character of seers. You love them because you say, These things were not made, they were seen. – John Jay Chapman

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Sight

A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass. – English Proverb

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Sight

My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness. – Helen Keller

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Sight

In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is King. – Michael Apostolius

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Sight

Random Quotes

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices. – Jean-Paul Sartre

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Nature

I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately. – Bob Iger

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Leadership

Institutions – government, churches, industries, and the like – have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction. – Charles Horton Cooley

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Freedom

I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it. – Allen Tate

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Dreams