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

Other quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

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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A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer. – Mignon McLaughlin

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Age
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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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Miscellaneous

The sunrise never failed us yet. – Celia Thaxter

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Miscellaneous

I would rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one. – Marcus Porcius Cato

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Miscellaneous

An impossibility does not disturb us until its accomplishment shows what fools we were. – Henry S. Haskins

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In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation. – George Earle Buckle

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They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master. – Samuel Johnson

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If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive. – Barry Lopez

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Storytelling

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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Freedom