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Quote by James Thurber
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous t

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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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. – James Thurber

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Risk
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Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost. – James Thurber

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Humor
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The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth. – James Thurber

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Other Quotes from
Future
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Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Future

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make. – William Morris

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Future

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments. – Gustave Flaubert

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Future

I dont know what the future holds. Anything is possible. – Liz Phair

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Future

Random Quotes

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart. – Andres Segovia

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Music

Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Honesty

If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals. – David Mamet

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Government

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. – William Tecumseh Sherman

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Truth