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    Ray Bradbury
    “The sun rose yellow as a lemon.
    The sky was round and blue.
    The birds looped clear water songs in the air.
    Will and Jim leaned from their windows.
    Nothing had changed.
    Except the look in Jim's eyes.
    "Last night. . ." said Will. "Did or didn't it happen?”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
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    Ray Bradbury
    “Because her flesh knows heat, cold, affliction, I know fire, snow, and pain.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
    tags: love, ray-bradbury, wicked, women
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    Ray Bradbury
    “most men jump at the chance to give up everything for nothing. There’s nothing we’re so slapstick with as our own immortal souls.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
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    Elise Sax
    “Look around you. Do you have pennies in your life? Little treasures that you overlooked? Be aware of gifts and opportunities. Don’t take them for granted. When something good is at your feet, pick it up. Cherish it.”
    ― Elise Sax, Ship of Ghouls
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    Dorothy Parker
    “If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: god, humor, money
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    Will Rogers
    “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
    ― Will Rogers
    tags: enterprise, humor, inertia, inspirational
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    Will Rogers
    “Never miss a good chance to shut up.”
    ― Will Rogers
    tags: advice, funny, reticence, silence
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    Will Rogers
    “When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.”
    ― Will Rogers
    tags: calmly, die, screaming, will-rogers
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    Will Rogers
    “When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.”
    ― Will Rogers
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Mostly Sally
    tags: brains, marriage
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “I always advise people never to give advice.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: advice
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    The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at
    “The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, The Adventures of Sally
    tags: guns, humor, hunting, perspective, shooting
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    Dave Barry
    “You should not confuse your career with your life.”
    ― Dave Barry
    tags: profession, work
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    E.E. Cummings
    “To be nobody but
    yourself in a world
    which is doing its best day and night to make you like
    everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
    which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: poetry
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    E.E. Cummings
    “Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
    ― E. E. Cummings
    tags: death, life, poetry
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    E.E. Cummings
    “Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: decisions, love, stars, taking-chances
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    E.E. Cummings
    “Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.”
    ― e.e. cummings
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    E.E. Cummings
    “Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: love, moon, stars, sun
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    E.E. Cummings
    “I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.”
    ― e.e. cummings
    tags: inspirational
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    E.E. Cummings
    “The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: snow
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    E.E. Cummings
    “may came home with a smooth round stone
    as small as a world and as large as alone.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: loneliness, poetry, travel
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    Ogden Nash
    “Tonight’s December thirty-first,
    Something is about to burst.
    The clock is crouching, dark and small,
    Like a time bomb in the hall.
    Hark, it's midnight, children dear.
    Duck! Here comes another year!”
    ― Ogden Nash, Collected Verse from 1929 On
    tags: december-31, new-year-s-eve, new-years, new-years-eve
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    Ogden Nash
    “Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
    And that's what parents were created for.”
    ― Ogden Nash
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    Ogden Nash
    “A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.”
    ― Ogden Nash, The Private Dining-room and Other Verses
    tags: dog, door
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    Ogden Nash
    “To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.”
    ― Ogden Nash
    tags: humor, marriage
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    Ogden Nash
    “You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.”
    ― Ogden Nash
    tags: humor, youth
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    Ogden Nash
    “Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.”
    ― Ogden Nash, Hard Lines
    tags: candy, drinking, jingle, liquor
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    Ogden Nash
    “I have an idea that the phrase “weaker sex” was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm. ”
    ― Ogden Nash
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    Ogden Nash
    “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.”
    ― Ogden Nash
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    Ogden Nash
    “If you don’t want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won’t have to work.”
    ― Ogden Nash, Hard Lines
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