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"There are many stages to a man's life. In the first stage, he is young and eager, like a beaver. In the second stage, he wants to build things, like dams, and maybe chew down some trees. In the third stage, he feels trapped, and then 'skinned.'' I'm not sure what the fourth stage is." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There is the bellyache and the burned-out basement bulb, the stalled car and the incontinent cat. The windows frost, the toilets sweat, the body of our spouse is one cold shoulder and the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures." »William H Gass
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"I must follow him through thick and thin." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"Guilt is a rope that wears thin." »Ayn Rand
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"In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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""How long does getting thin take?" Pooh asked anxiously." »A. A. Milne
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"Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible." »Hosea Ballou
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"It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water." »Franklin P. Jones
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"Mahatma Gandi was what wives wish their husbands were: thin, tan and moral." »Unknown
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"Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly...to revere God and be God." »Daniel J. Boorstin
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"Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide." »John Dryden
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"Even in the darkest phase be it thick or thin, always someone marches brave here beneath my skin." »K. D. Lang
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"Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat." »Joanne Woodward
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"Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained." »Robert Albert Bloch
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"When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap." »Cynthia Heimel
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"A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth." »Lao Tzu
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"The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface." »Aldous Huxley
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"A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely." »Pam Brown
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"Baloney is the lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it." »Fulton J. Sheen
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"Marta says the interesting thing about fly-fishing is that it's two lives connected by a thin strand. Come on, Marta. Grow up." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Baloney is the unvarnished lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it." »Fulton John Sheen
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"Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept." »Lucille Clifton
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"Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty if you are plain, charming if you are dull, thin if you are fat, youthful if you are aging, how to write though you are inarticulate, how to make money though you are not good with figures." »Henry Anatole Grunwald
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"Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains." »Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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"Time is but the stream I go a-fishin in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people. They are born with a little bit of angelshine about them, and though it wears thin sometimes there is always enough left to lasso your heart-even when they are sitting in the mud, or crying temperamental tears, or parading up the street in mother's best clothes." »Alan Marshall Beck
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"Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin." »Kathleen Norris
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"We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education ... We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse." »E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
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"Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shore, the scar of our racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles over racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or feel remorse for this shameful episode. Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore all exalt it. Our children are still taught to respect the violence which reduced a red-skinned people of an earlier culture into a few fragmented groups herded into impoverished reservations." »John Kennedy, Autobiography of malcolm x
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"It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin." »Katharine Butler Hathaway
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