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“The things that stop you having sex with age are exactly the same as those that stop you riding a bicycle.”
― Alex Comfort, The Joy of Sex

“The average newspaper boy in Pittsburgh knows more about the universe than did Galileo, Aristotle, Leonardo, or any of those other guys who were so smart they only needed one name.”
― Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness

“When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it--this is knowledge.”
― Confucius

“Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

“The only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people.”
― George Vaillant

“Whenever I feel afraid I hold my head erect and whistle a happy tune.”
― Richard Rodgers

“If someone offered you a pill that would make you permanently happy, you would be well advised to run fast and run far. Emotion is a compass that tells us what to do, and a compass that perpetually stuck on north is worthless.”
― Daniel Gilbert

“Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.”
― Mark Twain

“Why do we kill people who kill people to show that killing people is wrong?”
― National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, 1992

“When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Getting Married