There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.James Thurber
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Next to reasoning, the greatest handicap to the optimum development of Man lies in the fact that this planet is just barely habitable. Its minimum temperatures are too low, and its maximum temperatures too high. Its day is not long enough, and its night is too long. The disposition of its water and earth is distinctly unfortunate (the existence of the Mediterranean Sea in the place where we find it is perhaps the unhappiest accident in the whole firmament). These factors encourage depression, fear, war, and lack of vitality. They describe a planet, which is by no means perfectly devised for the nurturing or for the perpetuation of a higher intelligence.
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I think that if he doesn't do well with the high-profile races where he's appearing, it could hurt him.
James Thurber
Philosophy offers the rather cold consolation that perhaps we and our planet do not actually exist religion presents the contradictory and scarcely more comforting thought that we exist but that we cannot hope to get anywhere until we cease to exist. Alcohol, in attempting to resolve the contradiction, produces vivid patterns of Truth which vanish like snow in the morning sun and cannot be recalled the revelations of poetry are as wonderful as a comet in the skies , and as mysterious. Love, which was once believed to contain the Answer, we now know to be nothing more than an inherited behavior pattern.
James Thurber
It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.
James Thurber
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