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Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
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Forgiveness
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God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
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Life
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The funniest line in English is "Get it?" When you say that, everyone chortles.
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A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.
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Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
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I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'
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Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
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Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.
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Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.
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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
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The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
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A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.
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