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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We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair. – Mignon McLaughlin

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great
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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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Marriage
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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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God
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It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. – Robert Louis Stevenson, “Crabbed Age and Youth,” Virginibus Puerisque, 1881

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

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

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Oh, one world at a time! – Henry David Thoreau, when asked about afterlife

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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. – George Santayana

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Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry. – Norman Borlaug

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Food

We cannot see time directly; we catch glimpses only of its reflections. – Terri Guillemets

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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. Im lucky enough to be in the position where I dont make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me like I would die for it. – Quentin Tarantino

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movies