"I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40."

-- James Thurber

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“There will be no yelling at people who are bleeding themselves to unconsciousness.”
“Weigh down your curtains with a proper 5-inch hem. It makes them much more proportioned and professional-looking.”
“I don't really believe in cliques - I think everyone can be friends with everyone.”

Source : "What Was Lucy Hale Like When She Was 17?". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. January 22, 2013.
“It is good for me that I have been afflicted.”

Source : Mary Rowlandson (2014). “Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson”, p.105, Diderot Publishing
“Reason is emotion for the sexless.”
“When you blow away the foam, you get down to the real stuff.”

Source : T. Boone Pickens (2008). “The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America's Energy Future”, p.84, Crown Business
“I want to take the word Christianity back to Christ himself, back to that mighty heart whose pulse seems to throb through the world to-day, that endless fountain of charity out of which I believe has come all true progress and all civilization that deserves the name .. I go back to that great Spirit which contemplated a sacrifice for the whole of humanity. That sacrifice is not one of exclusion, but of an infinite and endless and joyous inclusion. And I thank God for it.”

Source : "What is Religion?". Speech at the "Parliament of World Religions", Columbian Exposition, Chicago World's Fair, 1893.
“As you understand the game of football, you understand that it is about wins and losses.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com

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