Quote by Mignon McLaughlin
Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening

Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening. – Mignon McLaughlin

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Most sermons sound to me like commercials – but I cant make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product. – Mignon McLaughlin

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God
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For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance. – Mignon McLaughlin

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Life
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When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one. – Mignon McLaughlin

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A man who finds no satisfaction in himself, seeks for it in vain elsewhere. – François VI de la Rochefoucault

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I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others? – Maurice Maeterlinck

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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. – Mohandas Gandhi

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We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice. – John Dewey

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It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better. – Ambrose Bierce

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I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family. – Elizabeth Edwards

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