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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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If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, youd have a hell of a lot of overlapping. – Mignon McLaughlin

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A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners. – Mignon McLaughlin

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Today we have a temporary aberration called “industrial capitalism” which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital… the natural world and properly functioning societies. No sensible capitalist would do that. – Amory Lovins

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Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no. – Jean Anouilh

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The guts carry the feet not the feet the guts. – Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, 1605

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