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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A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners. – 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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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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Oh, one world at a time! – Henry David Thoreau, when asked about afterlife

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Sympathy is never wasted except when you give it to yourself. – John W. Raper

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Think not I am what I appear. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions. – Albert Camus

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The families of many athletes – incensed at the sports leagues and hoping to make games safer overall – are increasingly making the brains of players who die prematurely and suspiciously available for study. Some athletes are even making the bequest themselves. – Jeffrey Kluger

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My e-mail address is actually my wifes e-mail address. I actually hate computers. – Joe Sakic

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