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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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Most sermons sound to me like commercials – but I cant make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product. – 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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The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit. – Norman Douglas

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Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events. – Paul Valéry

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A man who finds no satisfaction in himself, seeks for it in vain elsewhere. РFran̤ois VI de la Rochefoucault

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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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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. – Georg C. Lichtenberg

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