Time is so old and love so brief, love is pure gold and time a thief. We're late, darling, we're late, The curtain descends, everything ends, too soon, too soon.

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The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.

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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

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Wind is caused by the trees waving their branches.

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Abracadabra, thus we learn The more you create, the less you earn. The less you earn, the more you're given, The less you lead, the more you're driven, The more destroyed, the more they feed, The more you pay, the more they need, The more you earn, the less you keep, And now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to take If the tax-collector hasn't got it before I wake.

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One thing about the past. It's likely to last.

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Here's a good rule of thumb; too clever is dumb.

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If called by a panther, don't anther.

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There has been a lot of progress during my lifetime, but I'm afraid it's heading in the wrong direction.

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Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit. So here we are several billion of us, crowded into our global concentration camp for the duration. How are we to survive? Solemnity is not the answer, any more than witless and irresponsible frivolity is. I think our best chance lies in humor, which in this case means a wry acceptance of our predicament. We don't have to like it but we can at least recognize its ridiculous aspects, one of which is ourselves.

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