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John Atkinson


If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

H. L. Mencken


Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Amy Grant


More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.

Samuel Johnson


While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, chapter 10 (1916)


[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon�laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution�these can lift at a colossal humbug�push it a little�weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

James F. Hind


People want to know how much you care before they care how much you know.

Chinese Proverb


A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

William Hazlitt


There is nothing more likely to drive a person mad than...an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.

Aldous Huxley


Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

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