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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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There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone but, years after, we know it was much later. – Mignon McLaughlin

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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor. – Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus puerisque, 1881

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Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. – Frederic Chopin

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The chief characteristics of the [liberal] attitude are human sympathy, a receptivity to change, and a scientific willingness to follow reason rather than faith. – Chester Bowles, New Republic, 22 July 1946

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Society is doing a great deal for the workingman, for the lower classes; but it seems to me, sometimes, as if it formed associations to obtain for them toys, and then formed other associations to teach them to play with them. – John B. Gough

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