"Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you."

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Source : Joey Adams (1981). “Strictly for laughs”, A & W Publishers, Inc.

Joey Adams

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“There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope. The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.”
“Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety.”

Source : Stephen Young (2003). “Moral Capitalism: Reconciling Private Interest with the Public Good”, p.9, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
“Museums should be places where you raise questions, not just show stuff.”
“I've always thought flight was fun and wanted to write about flight, and I knew a lot of househusbands who were having a really bad time with it. I thought flight might perk up a marriage here or there.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“If I train the hardest, run the longest, go beyond what anyone else has the mental determination to do, I will be the winner.”
“Such exceptional suffering and calamity, then, affecting the hero, and-we must now add-generally extending far and wide beyond him, so as to make the whole scene a scene of woe, are an essential ingredient in tragedy and a chief source of the tragic emotions, and especially of pity. But the proportions of this ingredient, and the direction taken by tragic pity, will naturally vary greatly.”
“As horrific as this impact has been on my constituents, it is only a small part of the overwhelming destruction covering 90,000 square miles of the Gulf Coast.”
“They who once engage in iniquitous designs miserably deceive themselves when they think that they will go so far and no farther; one fault begets another, one crime renders another necessary; and thus they are impelled continually downward into a depth of guilt, which at the commencement of their career they would have died rather than have incurred.”

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