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Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discover

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. – Leo Rosten

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The purpose of life is not to be happy – but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all. – Leo Rosten

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Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers. – Leo Rosten

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Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. – Leo Rosten

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When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it. РAlbert Szent-Gy̦rgyi

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Seeking is not always the way to find. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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