Quote by James Thurber
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. – James Thurber

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I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unseasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night. – James Thurber

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Psychology
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Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge. – James Thurber

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Haste, Hurry
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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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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In today already walks tomorrow. – Friedrich von Schiller

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Live Now

One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us. – Michael Cibenko

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Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective. – Paul Biya

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Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four. – C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life, 1955

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Fairies are invisible and inaudible like angels. But their magic sparkles in nature. – Lynn Holland

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