Year: 2008
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Decision
The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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Consequences
Everybody sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.Robert Louis Stevenson
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Childhood
One could say that I had a happy childhood, although I showed little talent for being happy.Samuel Beckett
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Mrs. Marv Mendenhall
Back when David Letterman had a daytime show (Jun-Nov 1980), he had a regular character named Mrs. Marv Mendenhall played by Edie McClurg. This segment always cracked me up, so I did a search for Mrs. Marv on YouTube, and the Late show sites to see if I could find a clip, but none of…
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Ego
The ego is a self-justifying historian, which seeks only that information that agrees with it, rewrites history when it needs to, and does not even see the evidence that threatens it.Anthony G. Greenwald
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Loneliness
Loneliness is not being alone; it’s loving others to no avail. Mario Stefani as quoted in The City of Falling Angels