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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Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough. – Mignon McLaughlin

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Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit. – Bern Williams

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If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. – Isaac Newton, letter to Robert Hooke, 5 February 1675 (“Bernard of Chartres used

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He gave her a look you could have poured on a waffle. – Ring Lardner

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There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain. – W. Somerset Maugham

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