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- Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
- Amelia Earhart (1897 - 1937)
- Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- Do not try to solve all life's problems at once -- learn to dread each day as it comes.
- Donald Kaul
- Christian, n. One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Opera, n. A play representing life in another world whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures, and no postures but attitudes.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Do not try to solve all life's problems at once -- learn to dread each day as it comes.
- Donald Kaul
- Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny -
Did you ever try buying them without money? - Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
- ...all life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and (there is) no cause to value one above the other."
- H.P. Lovecraft
- Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
- Dwight Eisenhower, April 16, 1953
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