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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 are a handful of people whom money wont spoil, and we all count ourselves among them. – Mignon McLaughlin

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

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When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. – Eric Hoffer

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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle. РAndr̩ Gide, Journals, 26 October 1924

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Little things console us because little things afflict us. – Blaise Pascal

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The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is noninterference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours. – William James

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Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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First, take the government of the Indians out of politics second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites third, give the Indian the ballot. – George Crook

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A short absence is the safest. – Ovid

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Science never solves a problem without creating ten more. – George Bernard Shaw

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